The ‘inclusive scholarship’ fraud, anti-squatting law falls short and other commentary

Arguments urging the “the medical profession to embrace ‘inclusive scholarship’ ” from Stan Gerson, the dean of Case Western Reserve Medical School, “epitomize the falsehoods that govern academic life today,” thunders City Journal’s Heather Mac Donald. “Under traditional scholarship, anyone with scientific insight will be included in knowledge-building. Under ‘inclusive scholarship,’ however, merely having a previously unrepresented ‘voice’ entitles you to a place in the ladder of discovery.” Fact is, “ ’inclusive scholarship’ and ‘inclusive excellence’ are just the latest effort to provide a justification for racial quotas.” Yet Gerson “speaks for the entire medical establishment – the AMA, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the federal funding agencies, science publishing – in his willingness, for the sake of racial virtue-signaling, to undermine the enterprise that has freed humanity from so much suffering.”

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