Scientists Enthusiastic About New Gender, Non-Binary Quotas for Research Funding

re: COVID

Science is a venal pursuit and that’s bad enough.

Now the last shred of credibility is vaporized.

Scientists Enthusiastic About New Gender, Non-Binary Quotas for Research Funding

2022-10-24. Emphasis added.

The Australian Academy of Sciences has thrown its support behind a new quota system dealing with “gender inequities” in the distribution of research grants—despite repeated concerns from commentators that gender quotas do not produce meaningful outcomes.

In a “new intervention”, the country’s health and medical research funding body, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), has pledged to provide an equal number of Investigator Grants to women and men.

The NHMRC also said that non-binary researchers would be explicitly included for the first time.

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WIND: sort applications into the “penis” and “non penis” piles? Then subsort by race, sexual orientation, etc... never has been easier to decide who to grant money to!