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William Harper

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Endocrinology MD, internist, #MAiD provider
Clinician educator/researcher
@MacDeptMed @HamHealthSci
Hamilton, Canada drharper.ca Joined November 2010
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William Harper @wlharper1
One of the downsides to #DEI is it incentivizes cultural misappropriation. We have seen this in academia, eg. Carrie Bourassa, and like all the other problems of #DEI it has spread to the wider world.

Not to say cultural misappropriation wasn’t present before, eg. Archibald Belaney and Michelle Latimer, but academia gives it a nomenclature and “scholarship” that obscures its sophistry and paints it in a falsely authentic light buttressed by flawed data: non-correlative (basically noise) or non-causative (absent Brad Hill criteria) or unrelated (not objective) or supported by misapplied statistics (non Gaussian frequency distribution) or some combination of all the above.

The end result is credentialed charlatanism. And any sane person daring to object ends up being delegitimized and ostracized by false accusations of discrimination from the charlatans themselves or their brainwashed allies.

The culture can then shift from MLK’s colour blindness to racial essentialism as it tries to correct a bias Tversky and Kahneman identified but misunderstood and everyone who came after them bastardized and grifted.

The subsequent polarization along racial lines widens so that all things previously thought unthinkable become possible and then probable.

We should get off this path. It’s stupid and dangerous.
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A company that belonged to federal Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault said it was Indigenous-owned while bidding on federal contracts.

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