DEI - part the second

The name isn't familiar. I've been watching the biopharma space for some years, but his work there goes back some decades. His name is William Rutter, that's his obit.

So, one might ask, why is he the subject of a DEI screed? You would ask, wouldn't you? Well, here's why.

At 15, Bill, as he was known, left his local high school to enroll in college in Utah. While there, he was identified and recruited by Harvard University through a program aimed at finding promising students from underrepresented regions.

Garfield 2.0 (a step closer) would have a shitfit today, of course. But, may be not. You can't get more fishbelly white than Idaho and Utah. So, may be, Garfield 2.0 (a step closer) might have been OK with Harvard giving a deserving white boy from really White States a leg up. Or, may be not. How about today?

In 1968 Dr. Rutter, a biochemist, was recruited by the University of California, San Francisco, to help transform it into a research powerhouse with funding from the National Institutes of Health. He helped pioneer the science of genetic engineering — a foundation of the biotech industry that set it apart from traditional pharmaceutical development.

And, once again, the Damn NIH wouldn't dare boost the prospects of a West Coast woke college these days. Not in a million years.

Too bad that 99.44% of all progress comes out of the Coastal Blue States. If the likes of Demented Dictator Don succeeds in turning the USofA into the Dumb States of Mississippi, we'd best learn Mandarin. Not that the Dumb States of Mississippi comprehend real English.