Outraged physicists formally rebut Supreme Court justice's comments about racial diversity in scienc

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Outraged physicists formally rebut Supreme Court justice's comments about racial diversity in science education

Business Insider
By Tanya Lewis
3 hours ago

Alexandria Suggs (L), a student at Wayne County Community College of Detroit, Michigan, wears a 'Don't Hate' sticker on her face as she attends a rally to defend affirmative action outside the U.S. Supreme Court April 1, 2003 in Washington, DC

In the wake of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's apparent endorsement of the claim that affirmative action hurts black scientists, professional physicists have written a letter to the Supreme Court denouncing the claims.

Scalia's comments were made during oral arguments in Fisher vs. University of Texas, in which a white student claimed affirmative action policies prevented her from attending the university because of her race.

"We object to the use of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields as a paper tiger in the debate over affirmative action. We as professional scientists are in strong support of affirmative action policies," the physicists wrote in the letter, which has been signed by more than 2,000 scientists.



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