Responses to 10 common criticisms of anti-racism action in STEMM

1 Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, 2 Bioethics and Science Policy Program, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, 3 Ecology, Evolution, and Biodiversity Program, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, 4 Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 5 Department of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, 6 Porsia Curry, Black Resource Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, 7 Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America, 8 School of Chemistry, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 9 Department of Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America, 10 Department of Neurology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America, 11 Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 12 Executive Women’s MBA Cohort, Women’s College, Brenau University, Gainesville, Georgia, United States of America, 13 Department of Graduate Studies, Master of Science in Legal Studies Program, Cornell Law School, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, 14 Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 15 Neurosciences Interdepartmental Program, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, 16 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, 17 Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, 18 Department of Biochemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, 19 Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, 20 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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