David E. Bernstein
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“Pooling people in race silos is akin to zoologists grouping raccoons, tigers, and okapis on the basis that they are all stripey.” 8”
― Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America
― Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America
“The need to satisfy FDA and NIH rules can also slow down important biomedical research, ultimately costing lives. In fall 2020, Moderna announced it was slowing enrollment in its clinical trial of a COVID-19 vaccine to ensure it had sufficient minority representation among study participants. As thousands of people worldwide were dying of COVID-19-related ailments, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel made the remarkable assertion that diversity in research subjects “matters more to [Moderna] than speed.”55 NIH director Francis Collins later revealed that Moderna was not acting autonomously but rather under his direction.56 He told Moderna that it needed to recruit more “people of color” (i.e., people other than non-Hispanic whites), before NIH would acknowledge the vaccine’s safety.”
― Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America
― Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America
“The standardized racial and ethnic categories developed in Statistical Directive No. 15 in 1977 (see Chapter One), came with an explicit warning these “classifications should not be interpreted as being scientific or anthropological in nature.”1 And indeed, the classifications have no valid scientific or anthropological basis. Yet the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) require medical researchers to classify study participants by Directive 15 categories.”
― Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America
― Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America
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