NYT: “The ‘Benefits’ of Black Physics Students”
17th December 2015
Steve Sailer fisks a very silly New York Times editorial.
Black students come to the physics classroom for the same reason white students do; they love physics and want to know more. Do we require that white students justify their presence in the classroom?
Yes. It’s called applying to college.
Do we need them to bring something other than their interest?
Yes. Their high school GPAs and test scores.
Contrary to Chief Justice Roberts’s implication, science is not some unchanging world of pure objectivity and fact. …
This by a black woman who allegedly has three degrees, one from an ‘Ivy League institution’. An astrophysicist who doesn’t believe that science is ‘some unchanging world of pure objectivity and fact’ would appear ipso facto disqualified from calling herself a scientist. Those kinds of ‘scientists’ we don’t need. Perhaps she’d feel more comfortable in a Gender Studies field.
Jedidah C. Isler is a National Science Foundation astronomy and astrophysics postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt University.
And probably an affirmative action child all the way through the process. Which merely underscores how corrupt the process has become.