Minority professor denied grants because he hires on merit
Timely article with excellent points made.
This professor tells it like it is while everyone else is self censoring.
"I don't care about the colour of your skin. I'm interested in hiring someone who wants to work on the project and is good at it,' Prof. Patanjali Kambhampati says"
"Patanjali Kambhampati, a professor in the chemistry department at Montreal's McGill University, believes the death knell for the latest grant was a line in the application form where he was asked about hiring staff based on diversity and inclusion considerations. He says his mistake was maintaining that he would hire on merit any research assistant who was qualified, regardless of their identity."
"Kambhampati said he didn't go public after the first grant was rejected but decided to speak out now because the increasing use by the government of equity, diversity and inclusion, aka EDI, provisions, as well as woke culture, are killing innovation, harming science and disrupting society."
"Because both applications were rejected at the bureaucratic level, it means that neither proceeded to the step where they would be forward to other scientists to review Kambhampati's proposals."
"There's a lot of self-censoring. And certainly you see it among young people in the university. So young people in the university self-censor a lot. Now they are afraid to talk. That's no way to advance our understanding of the world."
"As a scientist, our job is to think about how nature works, ask questions, and find answers without prejudice. We cannot do that anymore. We cannot ask how humans work, and how science and nature work, because the woke are interfering with us and saying, You can't ask those questions. You're a racist. You're a sexist. You're a homophobe. You're a colonialist. You're a something. There's some way in which the woke are trying to get people (so they're) no longer asking meaningful questions."
"People are afraid to think. People are afraid to say what they think."
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada...raid-to-think/
