Gearing Science to Fight Racial Bias
June 5, 2020
How Americans view the protests set off by police killings of people of color is often rooted in their unconscious biases, says a psychologist who has long studied prejudice and racism, adding that academe could help find answers but often hasn’t looked at the right questions. In what might form a possible work agenda, a scholar of science and technology policy recently proposed in Issues that the scientific community speak out publicly on the hidden nature of bias, stop marginalizing minority researchers and the topics they pursue, and of course diversify its workforce.