Columbia University is in the news today for expelling a handful of students who took over Hamilton Hall, barricading themselves (and a janitor) in the building. Christopher Rufo has another story out of Columbia about a professor receiving $100,000 in taxpayer funding.
EXCLUSIVE: Columbia professor Jennifer Manly marched with pro-Hamas encampment leaders and, according to public records, has been a recipient of $100 million in taxpayer funding for CRT-style research, which claims that racism causes Alzheimer’s in black people.
— Christopher F. Rufo
(@realchrisrufo) March 13, 2025
Racism causes what now?
This is Columbia University in April 2024. Jennifer Manly marched with pro-Hamas protestors and stood in a human blockade intending to prevent administrators from dismantling the unauthorized encampments, which shut down classes and was the base for illegal building occupations. pic.twitter.com/ny3rZHlGdl
— Christopher F. Rufo
But the real scandal is that Manly has been a recipient of more than $100 million in taxpayer funds for so-called “social determinants of health” research, which posits that racism, sexism, and homophobia cause brain disease in minorities—which critics call pseudoscience. pic.twitter.com/siWfq1zroJ
— Christopher F. Rufo
“Systems of oppression” and “discriminatory beliefs” cause black people to suffer dementia at disproportionate rates.
This is pure critical race theory, not scientific research. American taxpayers should not be sending millions to support radical activists who push bad research. The new NIH should take note: no more racialist pseudoscience.https://t.co/whLjQfVxCd
— Christopher F. Rufo
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We’d love to see the scientific method used to prove these theories.
Rufo writes in City Journal:
Our research has revealed that Manly is not only employed by the university but also subsidized by the American taxpayer. According to the National Institutes of Health and other publicly accessible databases, she has been named in connection with over $100 million in grants over the past 20 years. Much of her research is based on the so-called social determinants of health thesis, which posits that racism, sexism, and homophobia can cause brain disease in “Black and Latinx communities”—a thesis that critics have described as pseudo-science. (Manly, Columbia, and NIH did not return requests for comment.)
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Manly’s work is lavishly funded by taxpayers. Most recently, the National Institutes of Health gave her and her team nearly $700,000 to produce work linking racism to brain disease. As part of this grant, in January 2025, Manley and colleagues published an article implying that blacks living in states with “high lynching proportions” experienced higher levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), a factor associated with greater risk of dementia. The authors claimed that “racism is associated with inflammation and dementia risk” because it “cumulatively taxes the body resulting in worsening biological and cognitive health.” Another paper concluded that “racist U.S. policies” had an “influence on cognitive health over time and dementia risk later in life.”
Attention DOGE.
Indirect cost rate on those grants?
— Neil Thompson (@boyfromsi) March 13, 2025
The amount of wasted tax dollars flowing to leftist lunatics is truly insane
— Tristan Flynn (@TristanCPDT) March 13, 2025
Professor Jennifer Manly joined the protest with the Hamas supporters because of intersectionality. She is a social justice warrior and sees common cause with them.
— SG
(@GREENESJ333) March 13, 2025
We truly live in a fake clown world.
— 9FootCouch (@9FootCouch) March 13, 2025
Is there any chance whatsoever of clawing that money back? President Trump just ended $400 million in grants and contracts with Columbia over its refusal to confront anti-Semitism.
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