MD An­der­son tries to as­sure re­searchers in town hall meet­ing that Asian ‘eth­nic­i­ty’ is not the dri­ving force be­hind purge

Should Chi­nese re­searchers at the MD An­der­son Can­cer Cen­ter be wor­ried in the wake of three Asian sci­en­tists’ dis­missals tied to al­leged for­eign in­flu­ence?

The an­swer is a firm no, ac­cord­ing to ad­min­is­tra­tors who host­ed a town hall on Tues­day for alarmed em­ploy­ees. Sci­ence, which first broke the news about the fir­ings to­geth­er with the Hous­ton Chron­i­cle, ob­tained an record­ing record­ing from the meet­ing.

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