Revising the a Priori Hypothesis: Systemic Racism Has Penetrated Scientific Funding

Overview

Journal Cell

Publisher Cell Press

Specialty Cell Biology

Date 2020 Oct 30

PMID 33125883

Citations 16

Authors

Kafui Dzirasa

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Abstract

To manifest our sincerest aspirations to "enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability," the US biomedical research enterprise must directly confront the reality of structural racism in scientific funding and the widespread denial of its existence. I believe that moment in American history has, at long last, arrived.

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