I suspect the NIH program offices will receive a similar algorithm.
Note that the banned words include: female, females, woman, women, under-represented, Black, Latinx, bipoc, lgbt.
There is literally NO valid medical research that can be done while excluding these terms. None!
Note that the banned words include: female, females, woman, women, under-represented, Black, Latinx, bipoc, lgbt.
There is literally NO valid medical research that can be done while excluding these terms. None!
Reposted from
Darby Saxbe
Decision tree that has been sent to Program Officers at NSF
Comments
Blood Brain Barrier?
Systemic injection?
Statistical bias?
Not only excluding 51% of the population from researching their issues and then some - also hindering research e.g. for Alzheimer's or brain tumors etc.