Ms. Green’s LinkedIn page lists pronouns at the top, a fringe behavior that conflicts with President Trump’s declaration that there are two genders.
Furthermore, the “mission” section of the Orwellian-named “Basic Biobehavioral and Psychological Sciences Branch” contains the following:
Mission
The Basic Biobehavioral and Psychological Sciences Branch supports research fundamental to understanding human behaviors, social context, decision-making, and clinical practices associated with cancer etiology, prevention, detection, diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship.
We cultivate a portfolio of basic experimental studies involving humans or animals, observational studies, and mechanistic clinical trials.
We strive to ensure that fundamental knowledge arising from our portfolio has the potential to reduce the burden of cancer at the individual and population levels. Thus, we prioritize studies that engage individuals and segments of the U.S. population that have been typically underrepresented, underserved, and excluded from biomedical, clinical, behavioral, and social sciences research.
Lived experience and social identity shape how knowledge is generated, interpreted, and translated for public health benefit. We have a scientific and ethical imperative to nurture and sustain a diverse pool of talented researchers engaged in biobehavioral and psychological science research that informs cancer prevention and control.
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At best, these are left wing talking points unthinkingly inserted into an agency website. At worst, this is a call for diversity quotas and a racialized standard for cancer research. Neither is good.
In 2021, Ms. Green co-chaired a working group into creating an “equitable and inclusive culture in the agency.”
There are numerous examples of problematic content in this presentation, the most flagrant of which are the multiple non-ironic uses of the pseudo-phrase “Latinx.”
The use of the pseudo-phrase “Latinx” illustrates a worldview that is out of alignment with the Trump administration. Further demographic quotas promote racial identity over scientific merit.
