Responses to 10 common criticisms of anti-racism action in STEMM

• Published in: PLoS computational biology Vol. 17; no. 7; p. e1009141
• Main Authors: Gosztyla, Maya L, Kwong, Lydia, Murray, Naomi A, Williams, Claire E, Behnke, Nicholas, Curry, Porsia, Corbett, Kevin D, DSouza, Karen N, Gala de Pablo, Julia, Gicobi, Joanina, Javidnia, Monica, Lotay, Navina, Prescott, Sidney Madison, Quinn, James P, Rivera, Zeena M G, Smith, Markia A, Tang, Karen T Y, Venkat, Aarya, Yamoah, Megan A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 01.07.2021; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Bias; Biomedical research; Collaboration; Discrimination; Engineering - organization & administration; Funding; Health care; Hispanic Americans; Humans; Medical research; Medical students; Medical treatment; Minority & ethnic groups; Natural Science Disciplines - organization & administration; People and Places; Police brutality; Professionals; Racial discrimination; Racism; Science; Science Policy; Scientific method; Scientists; Signs and symptoms; Skin; Social Justice; Social Sciences; Womens health; United States; United States > US

Black applicants are 13% less likely than white applicants to receive research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) [22]. [...]the benefits of our research are not distributed equally; since the large majority of research subjects and tissue donors are white (even for many diseases t...