$250 donation to left-wing candidate for President Bill Bradley.
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Ending the scourge of cancer would be an monumental accomplishment for mankind, unfortunately the Director of the National Cancer Institute, Douglas Lowy, wants to focus on politics instead of pioneering research. Put simply, Lowy wants to put DEI, not scientific merit “front and center.” From an American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting:
“DEI [diversity, equity, inclusion] has to be front and center and I think we have to do it two ways,” Lowy said. “One is to talk the talk, but the other is to walk the walk. The NCI needs to be thinking about how to wisely invest more resources in this area.”
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Lowy appears at a September 2002 conference focused on promoting DEI in cancer research, the “15th AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved.” (Source)
At this conference, Lowy was an enthusiastic champion of the left’s expenditures on DEI, even though it comes at the expense of other scientific research. He was effusive in his praise for NIH and NCI’s support for and focus on DEI, highlighting the various buckets of DEI work and outlining the huge increase in DEI focus in research. He repeated the Biden Administration talking points on DEI in his slide presentation, noting,
“So I now want to turn to the second part, which is talking really about some of our policies and some of what can we try to do to make a difference from an NCI perspective. And so we have really thought about there being three critical buckets. One is to address cancer disparities and advance health equity. Two is to increase the diversity of the cancer research workforce. And we'll be coming back to these, you know, time after time. And third build a more equitable and inclusive NCI community, and this in many ways is the hardest part because we have a lot of committed people, but there's just so much imbalance in terms of the racial, ethnic, and other underrepresented minority at NCI, and it's also true NIH -wide.”
Lowy presented slides bragging about a quarter of a billion increase in DEI research funding at NCI.
And the need to impose racial quotas and promote divisive sexual politics into research funding.
Cancer research is understandable a focus of national attention but diluting it with divisive racial and sexual ideology will ensure that vital resources for scientific breakthroughs are diverted to political ideologies. Sadly the Director the National Cancer Institute is more than willing to put ideology over merit.
