Fight hots up over Toronto racial discrimination claim

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Kin-Yip Chun, a seismologist of Chinese descent, has claimed that the University of Toronto was guilty of racial discrimination because it failed to give him a tenure-track professorship. He joined the university's physics department in 1985, and served there for almost 10 years. During this time, he derived his income entirely from external research contracts. He claims that he was obliged to work as if he were a professor, but had to apply for external research funds.

Cases, Race relations, Race discrimination, University of Toronto, Kin-Yip Chun

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'Skewed medical goals' revealed by Indian survey

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Medical researchers in India are focusing on diseases which are relatively insignificant, such as cancer and neurological disorders, rather than on those which affect many ordinary people, such as parasitic diseases and respiratory diseases. Medicine has a high status in Indian society, but there seems to be a serious mismatch between medical research and the needs of ordinary Indians, according to Subbaiah Arunachalam of the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation.

India, Medical research

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