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Diversity mandates as practiced by Canada are eroding basic science and discrediting the academic system, the renowned Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker warned in recent testimony to a House of Commons research committee.

“Allocating funding to scientists based on their race or sex works against the interest of science and the nation,” Pinker told a Monday meeting of the Standing Committee on Science and Research.

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Rather, said Pinker, universities need to drop their “obsession” with enforcing ethnic diversity and focus instead on cultivating “vi

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