Florida has passed a new law that prohibits public university labs from hiring anyone who has worked in China for 1 year or more. The law has been criticized as a 'Chinese Exclusion Act' and is seen as racist and counterproductive. The law applies to China, Russia, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and Venezuela. Critics argue that it is discriminatory and could hinder scientific research and collaboration. The law is part of an effort to combat what some see as a problematic reliance on foreign funding in American universities.
A new state law is thwarting faculty at Floridaโs public universities who want to hire Chinese graduate students and postdocs to work in their labs. https://t.co/MnA5xEE4IF
The American higher ed system is a racket. The schools make out like bandits, indoctrinating our youth with hate and delusion, all while taxpayers fund the whole thing. My bill starts to combat this scheme. https://t.co/w2icglWwoH
This is quite literally a new Chinese Exclusion Act in Florida, where a law now prohibits universities to hire Chinese graduate students and postdocs to work in their labs. https://t.co/HO6jbwM9az It's not only extremely racist but it's also extremely stupid from a USโฆ https://t.co/nUxljGgk7U
'Universities are a massive backdoor route for immigration' 'Our universities appear to be obsessed by money, whether it comes from foreign students or whether it comes from Chinese companies linked directly to the Chinese government, there's too much of it going on' https://t.co/pby23CRPG0
Florida passed a state law prohibiting public university labs from hiring anyone who has worked in China for 1 year or more: https://t.co/eC9WVuDNSe https://t.co/YvX07yZqZ6
Whatever one thinks of this new law, it's not just China so the hed is misleading: "The law applies to...China, Russia, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and Venezuela" New Florida law blocks Chinese students from academic labs @ScienceMagazine https://t.co/CUrunfFQTv