2024 | Valerie A Tornini, — DEI infrastructures required for the best science and medicine

Valerie A Tornini, Robert W Fernandez, Olivia V Goldman, Joanne Suarez, DEI infrastructures required for the best science and medicine,The Lancet, Volume 403, Issue 10442, 2024, Page 2375, ISSN 0140-6736. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00697-4

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Over the last year, efforts in the USA have aimed to defund diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) infrastructures in education and professional organisations, including efforts to defund by state legislatures of Wisconsin, Florida, Texas, and Alabama¹ and the American Academy of Dermatology.² Additionally, these measures also aim to de-legitimise gender, sexuality, religious, African American, sociological, Indigenous, and ethnic studies at public institutions, as these studies inform progress in DEI. Justification varies and can include funding priorities, shifting public resources towards privatisation, fostering division rather than unity, or personal ideologies. Yet, the goal remains the same: defund and disable the knowledge enterprises underpinning DEI.

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