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Mandatory EDI Statements Force Scientists to Lie for Grants
February 23, 2024
Geoff Horsman
Faculty Must Complete EDI Statements to Win Grants but Only 'Correct' Statements are Successful
An engineering professor recently told me that “engineers will say anything” to get a grant, joking that they’d throw their own mothers under the bus if it improved their prospects. It seems throwing their principles comes just as easy.
The complete article is available at the Toronto Sun:
Open letter to the Scientific American Editorial Board regarding intemperate tweets on x.com by then editor-in-chief Laura Helmuth.
Indigenous faculty members in Faculty of Social Work and the black dean accusing each other of racism
University of Waterloo Woke Faculty Host Conference on Academic Antagonism and Intimidation of Woke Faculty
To Jonathon Haidt, John Tomasi, the Board and Management of the Heterodox Academy (HxA)
University of Waterloo VP of Equity issues statement riddled with bizarre and contradictory evidence.
Artificial Intelligence and Equity: a perfect storm for undergraduate education
"The university is the home and sponsor of critics; it is not itself the critic."
David Haskell and William McNally Interview Charles Pincourt
Sunday May 8, 2022 7:30-9:30pm
UW uses non-academic criteria to award Canada Research Chair
