What a joke. Why are we even funding this institution?
The College Fix reports:
NIH spends $136 million in taxpayer funds on racism and medicine studiesA study on black drinkers and “microaggressions” is just one of the 267 research projects from the National Institutes of Health focusing on racism and medicine.In total, the taxpayer-funded entity has spent $136 million on racism-focused studies so far during the 2024 fiscal year, according to a College Fix analysis.Some focus on race and racial disparities from an observational standpoint, such as research from the University of Colorado Denver which looked into the relationship between “food insecurity and cardiometabolic health in diverse children and adolescents.”But others were more upfront about their belief that racism drives healthcare disparities, such as a Louisiana State University study titled “Black Hazardous Drinkers: Ecological Momentary Assessment of Racial/Ethnic Microaggressions.”Its abstract states the goal of the research is “to elucidate the role of MAs [microaggressions] in hazardous drinking and alcohol use motivation among Black individuals.”The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism granted $176,740 to the project in fiscal year 2024.The researchers did not respond to two emailed requests for comment on the study, sent by The Fix in the past month. The Fix asked for clarification on the role of systemic racism and the study’s potential application to other minority groupsThe NIH’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences provided $10,140,000 to the University of Michigan. The money went to the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research. The goal, according to the abstract, includes “achiev[ing] greater innovation, diversity, efficiency, equity, quality, inclusion, and reach.”A spokesperson for Michigan Medicine said the money will be used for “the advancement of research to improve the lives of humankind.”Mary Masson told The Fix the goal of the “translational science research” project is “to provide health solutions to all people more quickly.”The National Institutes of Health did not respond to two emailed requests for comment sent in the past month.Another study from Columbia University looks at “Epigenomic Pathways from Racism to Preterm Birth.”The study will “examine the multilevel (the interaction of individual and structural) racism… to determine if racism explains the excess [preterm birth] observed in [non-Hispanic] Black and Hispanic women.”
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