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Racism in Science

In this clip, interracial friends talk about how racist science is as a field. During the dialogue, the Black friend recalls a time when she was in the doctor’s office attempting to get diagnosed for a condition but all of the studies that her doctor was referring to only had white people as their population samples. Her white friend comments on how, as a scientist, she has observed how the field generally uses white people as the default for studies. There is a major disparity in the field especially when entire demographics of population samples aren’t considered.

Sometimes I feel like people think science is progressive but really it’s also very very behind the times in terms of in terms of like it’s super entrenched in white male… all that bullcrap.