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Evolutionary biology-themed institute works to debunk gender spectrum ‘nonsense’

Daniel Nuccio - Northern Illinois University — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 05:08:28 +0000

A team of self-styled science communicators are taking a stand against what they view as outright science denial through their new organization, The Paradox Institute, which works to inoculate young people against falling for gender spectra ideology myths and falsehoods. The institute produces educational materials on the biology of sex that young people find easy to digest…

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NIU hosts seminar on ending ‘White Linguistic Hegemony’

Daniel Nuccio - Northern Illinois University — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 05:08:40 +0000

Black students should not be penalized for using “Black Language” and college courses should critically interrogate “white linguistic hegemony and anti-Black linguistic racism,” said a scholar who gave a presentation recently at Northern Illinois University. “People’s language experiences are not separate from their racial experiences,” the University of Michigan’s April Baker-Bell told an…

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Medical schools now sell credentials, not knowledge, scholars argue

Daniel Nuccio - Northern Illinois University — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 05:01:10 +0000

Gone are the days when rigor in medical school weeded out the weakest links. When it comes to med schools today, credentials are the commodity, students are the consumers. Michigan State University physiology professor Stephen DiCarlo and research assistant Heidi Lujan recently wrote in Advances in Physiology Education that administrators and students are both “increasingly considering…

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Geologist field camps criticized as reliving Manifest Destiny, conquest

Daniel Nuccio - Northern Illinois University — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 04:00:17 +0000

Educating aspiring geologists in field camps is problematic and needs to be fundamentally changed, according to some critics of the practice, prompting one famed geologist to cry foul. The argument is that field camps are a racist, ableist, sexist role-playing exercise driven by toxic masculinity and centered around reliving Manifest Destiny, “subjugating the native populations…

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Scholars argue for uterus transplant coverage for biological males

Daniel Nuccio - Northern Illinois University — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 04:05:39 +0000

Government and private insurers have no moral reason not to pay for uterus transplants for biological males who identify as women, medical scholars wrote in a controversial June article in the American Medical Association’s Journal of Ethics. The peer-reviewed paper by Timothy Murphy, a professor at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago, and Kelsey Mumford…

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Scholars to study why $365M DEI investment into STEM failed to diversify engineering

Daniel Nuccio - Northern Illinois University — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 04:02:52 +0000

Despite 20 years of investment, women make up only 20 percent of engineering students and tenure-track faculty The National Science Foundation has tapped a set of scholars to study one of its programs that funneled $365 million into diversifying STEM, but appears to have had little effect in the field of engineering. The $300,000 grant doled out by the National Science Foundation will…

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Science education journal seeks articles on ‘systemic oppression’ in biology

Daniel Nuccio - Northern Illinois University — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 04:00:34 +0000

“There is an urgent need in biology education – and in the life sciences more broadly – to move from discussions of ‘diversity’ and ‘broadening participation’ that primarily attend to numerical representation towards research and reform targeting structures, systems, and cultural assumptions.” So states the team of special guest editors of an upcoming special issue of CBE – Life Science…

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‘Too rock heavy,’ too ableist, too white: Geoscience students identify concerns in field

Daniel Nuccio - Northern Illinois University — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 04:03:34 +0000

Geoscience courses are “too rock heavy,” remote field sites are not handicap accessible, and faculty in the field are insufficiently diverse — these are some of the concerns identified through a nationwide survey of students majoring in geoscience. “BIPOC students in geoscience face discrimination and barriers to learning at all levels, from microaggressions to systemic racism…

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‘Evidence’ group discredits study claiming little regret over gender-affirming top surgeries

Daniel Nuccio - Northern Illinois University — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 04:35:03 +0000

The Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine recently released a critical appraisal of a highly publicized article in the American Medical Association journal, JAMA Surgery, that claimed there is long-term satisfaction among patients who underwent a gender-affirming mastectomy. The study, published in August, found biological women who removed their breasts through a mastectomy to have a more…

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Med school professor says students weakened by campus paternalism

Daniel Nuccio - Northern Illinois University — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 04:06:44 +0000

Both during COVID and now in protecting students from stress, ideas they don’t like, scholar says “It used to be what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. That’s true for the immune system and getting thicker skin.” So said Steve Templeton, associate professor of microbiology and immunology at the Indiana University School of Medicine–Terre Haute, who emerged as a prominent contrarian voice at…

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