Saturday, April 07, 2018

The Politicization Of The MCAT

At Anon's urging, I'm moving this up in the queue. I agree that it's jaw-droppingly insane. Important American institutions are being taken over by the "social justice" cult, and we're all just sitting around watching it happen. 
A wee taste:
One MCAT practice question (from a collaboration between the AAMC and online-education nonprofit Khan Academy), for example, asks whether the wage gap between men and women is the result of bigotry, sexism, racism, or biological differences (no other options are provided, and the "correct" answer is sexism). Another asks whether the "lack of minorities such as African Americans or Latinos/Latinas among university faculty members" is due to symbolic racism, institutional racism, hidden racism, or personal bias (the correct answer is institutional racism). Yet another asks test-takers to select from a list of debatable definitions for "the terms 'sex' and 'gender.

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