As the Trump administration makes the lightest of cuts to what has long since become a wasteland of worthless DEI sociology papers posing as ‘scientific research’, the industrial PhD complex is going mad.
‘People will die based on these decisions’: Trump administration cuts funding for dozens of HIV studies – CNN
People will die! Oh my!
Based on this alarmist headline, you would think that the Trump administration is cutting funding for medical research trying to find a cure or something genuinely useful in the medical field.
But, of course not, this is all DEI sociology nonsense.
At the end of last week, Dr. Colleen Kelley said she was getting texts about every 10 minutes from colleagues whose HIV-related research grants were being terminated by the federal government.
“This is just pure chaos and insanity,” said Kelley, chair of the HIV Medicine Association. The National Institutes of Health canceled two grants last week for HIV projects she was working on, as well as funding for a large HIV clinical trial network she was involved with.
“It’s just a massive, massive bloodbath,” Kelley said.
Bloodbath! Chaos and insanity! Let’s see what’s actually being cut.
Over $1 million for ‘ SILOS: Structural Inequities across Layers Of Social-Context as Drivers of HIV and Substance Use’
Over $1 million for ‘Measures of structural stigmatization and discrimination for HIV research with Latine sexual and gender minorities’
Over $100,000 for ‘Monitoring Microaggressions and Adversities to Generate Interventions for Change (MMAGIC) for Black Women Living with HIV’
Over $250,000 for “Culturally-focused HIV Advancements through the Next Generation for Equity (CHANGE) Training Program”.
This is DEI. Not medical research. Money wasted on this garbage is not being used to fund actual medical research that might help people.
“The termination of numerous federal grants for HIV prevention and treatment is a cause for alarm,” Dr. Perry Halkitis, dean and Hunterdon Professor of Public Health & Health Equity at Rutgers University, wrote in an email to CNN. The NIH canceled funds for a Rutgers project examining stigma and aging among HIV-positive and -negative men who have sex with men.
“HIV remains a significant public health challenge throughout the nation, particularly for sexual and gender minority individuals and people of color,” Halkitis wrote. “As a public health dean, HIV researcher for over two decades, and proud gay man, I am deeply concerned about the impacts these grant eliminations will have on our ability to end AIDS.”
How will we possibly end AIDS… without a project “examining stigma and aging” among gay men with HIV.
How does this end AIDS? It doesn’t. It sucks up money.
The NIH told Dr. Lisa Bowleg, a professor of applied social psychology in George Washington University’s Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, that her funding was canceled for a project that sought to examine the dynamics of intersectional discrimination and social structural factors to understand Black men’s risk for mental health and substance abuse issues. The work also touched on HIV.
“As for the HIV piece, it is disturbing that more than four decades into the HIV epidemic, Black gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (and also Black heterosexual women, by the way) continue to have disproportionately higher HIV incidence and prevalence compared with white and other racial/ethnic groups in the U.S.,” Bowleg wrote in an email. “Terminating the research does not result in a termination of the problem; it simply exacerbates it.”
How does Ms. Bowleg’s research end the problem? Calling HIV racist? Here’s the study.
“Ending the HIV epidemic for all, not just some: structural racism as a fundamental but overlooked social-structural determinant of the US HIV epidemic”
Recent findings: In line with growing mainstream attention to the role of structural racism and health inequities, recent editorials and studies cite ending structural racism as an essential step to ending the US HIV epidemic. Recent studies demonstrate that barriers rooted in structural racism such as incarceration, housing instability, police discrimination, neighborhood disadvantage, health service utilization and community violence, and poor or no access to social services, transportation, and childcare, are barriers to HIV prevention.
We need to end capitalism, fundamentally transform society and create a leftist tyranny to end problem X. Where X is any variable, but in this case it’s HIV.
This isn’t even research, it’s agitprop with statistical charts. And everyone, including those with HIV, are better off without it.
