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Readers! A November fund-raising drive!

 

It is unfortunately time for another November fund-raising campaign to support my work here at Behind the Black. I really dislike doing these, but 2025 is so far turning out to be a very poor year for donations and subscriptions, the worst since 2020. I very much need your support for this webpage to survive.

 

And I think I provide real value. Fifteen years ago I said SLS was garbage and should be cancelled. Almost a decade ago I said Orion was a lie and a bad idea. As early as 1998, long before almost anyone else, I predicted in my first book, Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8, that private enterprise and freedom would conquer the solar system, not government. Very early in the COVID panic and continuing throughout I noted that every policy put forth by the government (masks, social distancing, lockdowns, jab mandates) was wrong, misguided, and did more harm than good. In planetary science, while everyone else in the media still thinks Mars has no water, I have been reporting the real results from the orbiters now for more than five years, that Mars is in fact a planet largely covered with ice.

 

I could continue with numerous other examples. If you want to know what others will discover a decade hence, read what I write here at Behind the Black. And if you read my most recent book, Conscious Choice, you will find out what is going to happen in space in the next century.

 

 

This last claim might sound like hubris on my part, but I base it on my overall track record.

 

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NIH to discriminate against whites in awarding research grants

Federal government: dedicated to segregation!
NIH: dedicated to racial discrimination

“Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!” The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has now created a program to award about $20 million in grant money exclusively to black researchers, thus favoring research not because of its merit but solely because of the skin color of the grantee.

The program will create a new class of NIH’s standard R01 research grant designed to “encourage a more diverse pool of PIs [principal investigators],” said Walter Koroshetz, director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), at a recent meeting. NINDS is launching the program, aimed at new PIs and those whose labs are at risk of folding, together with the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). In 2021, the three institutes partnered on a policy with similar aims that NIH later pulled because of concerns it would violate federal antidiscrimination laws.

The NIH attempted to create a similar bigoted grant program last year, but had to back off when critics pointed out its obvious illegality. Agency officials now claim this new program passes muster, because

…it aims to enhance diversity “in a very broad sense,” [NIH extramural chief Michael] Lauer says. An NIH spokesperson notes that although the program “encourages” applications from researchers in underrepresented groups, “it is not exclusive—all new investigators and at-risk investigators are eligible to apply.” (NIH defines “at-risk” as a PI who will have no NIH grants if their high-quality proposal isn’t funded.)

What a lie. We all know that the grant application will require each applicant to state their race, and the NIH will then automatically disqualify anyone who isn’t black. It will also conveniently never make public the actual racial breakdown of those who win grants from this program, in order to hide its bigotry.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
 

"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

6 comments

  • Col Beausabre

    I’d feel a lot healthier if I knew my tax money was going to the most qualified researchers working on the most vital problems. This isn’t funding somebodies paper as part of some tea fight over some obscure disagreement in the English Lit department, we’re talking peoples’ HEALTH!

  • Cotour

    Its all related:

    HARD TO ARGUE WITH THE FACTS

    If in your political campaigning (D) you tell people that you will “Shut down the energy industry”, and then proceed to do so without any viable and rational replacement for it what would any rational person expect? DISASTER! Planned and knowable disaster.

    Please sir, may I have some more? NOT!

    And this is by no means by mistake, this economic disaster being fashioned by the incompetent from a pro American perspective Biden / extreme radical Leftist Democrat party machine was planned and executed on day one. This unfolding economic disaster was not for one second necessary, it is all created, it has a purpose in making everyone “Equal” (Equally poor) and under control in order to “Save” the earth. Two things that government, any government cannot accomplish even if it wanted to. You are being defrauded and lied to.

    You will be controlled, and you will do as and live as you are told by your betters. And that is just where the extreme radical Left goes with this kind of fabricated politically driven absolute power disaster. How can you not have a bigger authoritarian government when there is a massive economic and environmental disaster ongoing? Who will save us all?

    Never let a disaster go to waste.

    https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fbiden-inflation-trump-successs.jpg&t=1655828863&ymreqid=dc7face7-d905-7706-2f2c-5a0751019300&sig=WsOTEoGBVJhR0PmtHUCK.Q–~D

  • Star Bird

    Its quite plain to see that they have Forgotten MLK and I HAVE A DREAM just for the sake of PC poppycock

  • Cotour

    THE SECOND PANDEMIC?

    “We need more money. We don’t just need more money for vaccines for children, we need more money to plan for the second pandemic. There’s gonna be another pandemic,” said Biden.

    Out of the mouth of the mentally infirm. When does the president think this second pandemic might happen, or when might this be planned for? October? Maybe November?

    Before the Covid pandemic it was talked about, planned for and trained for, then it happened. Same for 911. Coincidence?

    In the long term and over time things happen and many happen with a plan and a purpose. Where do you think our country and the world is being driven? You tell me.

    Strategy Over Morality.

  • pzatchok

    This is not discrimination this is equalization.

  • Edward

    pzatchok wrote: “This is not discrimination this is equalization.

    If it were equal then they wouldn’t be discriminating against anyone. It isn’t equalization but the exact opposite: dis-equalization. It is an unbalanced process.

    The worst part is that it supports and reinforces the Democratic Party line that certain people, strictly due to the color of their skin, are unable to successfully compete on a level playing field.

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