Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I don't get it.
Can we study menopause? That only affects women. So is that DEI? Can we study women's recovery from birth? Can we study postpartum depression?
Can we study the fact that physicians underestimate pain perception in Black patients? Or do we have to just ignore that?
Can we train people that depression symptoms often show up as physical complaints in East Asian populations? Or do we have to not tell our trainees that?
Even if the left, or even NIH, went to far with DEI, the idea that we can't study/train these things AT ALL is outrageous. If you're a conservative, you have to know that this is a really stupid overcorrection.
You don't get it. You can't do any of the health research of anything that might disproportionately affect women, people of color or vulnerable sub-groups. Sucks if you're female or a person of color and plan to ever be ill in your life, but this is a government being led by idiots, and elections have consequences. And there's a list of banned words that can not appear in a NIH proposal, and apparently one of the words is bias---so you can't even write about statistical bias in your sample anymore.