密歇根州立大学副校长兼研究员Steve Hsu因其在种族遗传学、警察枪击事件研究以及与右翼播客的访谈等问题上的言论，遭到学生抵制。学生指责他发表了种族主义言论，并支持警方暴力。Hsu否认这些指控，并表示他只是在进行学术研究，并无意冒犯任何群体。

👨‍🏫 Steve Hsu是一位著名的学者，在理论物理学、遗传学和神经科学领域都有杰出贡献。他曾担任北京基因组研究所的科学顾问，并参与了胆结石、黑色素瘤、心脏病等疾病的基因预测算法研究。他还是一位积极的科普作家，致力于提高公众对科学的理解。

🚨 近日，一些密歇根州立大学的学生发起了一项抵制Hsu的运动，指责他发表了种族主义言论，并支持警方暴力。他们列举了Hsu在右翼播客上的访谈、他允许MSU进行警察枪击事件研究以及他偶尔讨论种族遗传学等证据。

⚖️ Hsu否认了这些指控，并表示他只是在进行学术研究，并无意冒犯任何群体。他强调，他在种族遗传学方面的研究只是基于科学事实，并无任何种族主义意图。他同时也强调，他支持警方对所有公民一视同仁，并谴责任何形式的暴力。

🤔 这起事件引发了人们对学术自由、言论自由以及种族关系等问题的讨论。一些人认为，学生有权表达他们的观点，并抵制他们认为有问题的学者。另一些人则认为，学术自由是大学的核心价值，学者应该有权自由地进行研究和发表观点，即使这些观点可能引起争议。

🌐 这一事件也反映了当前社会对种族问题的敏感性。随着社会对种族平等的呼声越来越高，人们对任何可能被视为种族歧视的言论都更加敏感。这使得学者们在进行研究和发表观点时，需要更加谨慎，避免引起不必要的争议。

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Normally this would be a hidden thread, but I wanted to signal boost this request for help by Professor Steve Hsu, vice president of research at Michigan State University. Hsu is a friend of the blog and was a guest speaker at one of our recent online meetups – some of you might also have gotten a chance to meet him at a Berkeley meetup last year. He and his blog Information Processing have also been instrumental in helping me and thousands of other people better understand genetics and neuroscience. If you’ve met him, you know he is incredibly kind, patient, and willing to go to great lengths to help improve people’s scientific understanding.

Along with all the support he’s given me personally, he’s had an amazing career. He started as a theoretical physicist publishing work on black holes and quantum information. Then he transitioned into genetics, spent a while as scientific advisor to the Beijing Genomics Institute, and helped discover genetic prediction algorithms for gallstones, melanoma, heart attacks, and other conditions. Along with his academic work, he also sounded the alarm about the coronavirus early and has been helping shape the response.

This week, some students at Michigan State are trying to cancel him. They point an interview he did on an alt-right podcast (he says he didn’t know it was alt-right), to his allowing MSU to conduct research on police shootings (which concluded, like most such research, that they are generally not racially motivated), and to his occasional discussion of the genetics of race (basically just repeating the same “variance between vs. within clusters” distinction everyone else does, see eg here). You can read the case being made against him here, although keep in mind a lot of it is distorted and taken out of context, and you can read his response here.