The Disparate Impact of Merit in the Sciences

Diversity and equity criteria are ruling everything from grants and scholarships to government scientific appointments. Merit is no longer the leading criterion in many of these situations so I wonder if you could give an overview of this development and what we stand to lose with the de-emphasis of merit in the sciences. Well we're putting both lives at risk with the insistence on pushing people ahead into medicine who are not competitively qualified, he says.