Can we agree that this is not a good trend SC? I realize this is another story that really pisses me off nd I should be looking at all the good things happening, but I'm having a hard time finding those. A good story would be scientists banding together and just saying "STOP THIS SHIT!!"
Five of the nation’s top ice scientists found themselves in a conundrum.
They’d been tasked with a formidable job: reviewing candidates for the American Geophysical Union’s fellows program, the most prestigious award given by the world’s largest earth and space science society. But when the group looked at its list of candidates, all nominated by peers, it spotted a problem.
Every nominee on the list was a white man.]
So how are this people picked in the first place?
They’d been tasked with a formidable job: reviewing candidates for the American Geophysical Union’s fellows program, the most prestigious award given by the world’s largest earth and space science society. But when the group looked at its list of candidates, all nominated by peers, it spotted a problem.
Every nominee on the list was a white man.
The selection process this past spring was an arduous, careful operation from beginning to end.
Candidates, typically middle- or senior-level scientists, are first nominated by peers. The nominees are divided into groups with 20 or 30 names, and then organized by scientific disciplines within AGU — atmospheric sciences, ocean sciences, planetary sciences and so on.
Committees representing each section review the pool of nominees, select a few final candidates and send them on to an upper-tier committee. This last group, the “union committee,” makes the final selections. The process proceeds the same way each year and concludes, ostensibly, with the same outcome: a new batch of AGU’s best and brightest scientists.
Hmm, "best and brightest", there it is, there's the major no-no. There can be no more blue ribbons unless the skin color and gender is factored in.
The article goes on to try explain the inequality. In order to make up for this travesty of 'justice', I predict next years awardees will be very diverse, but likely not the best. Thoughts?
For SC... if you are interested in my solution to this 'problem', I'll give you my white-Republican-conservative answer... I would give the awards to those who have performed the best in their field. I know that's old fashioned, but I also know it would be the logical thing to do.
