How the Trump administration wants to reshape American science

economist.com

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>Federal agencies are now required to review all grants in light of an executive order terminating programmes aimed at promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), which Mr Trump has argued has made government less meritocratic

Only "Mr Trump" (sic) has argued that? Or only Republican partisans?

>As evidence of DEI’s malign influence Ted Cruz, the Senate Commerce Committee chairman, released a database that identified 3,476 NSF grants—roughly 10% of those awarded during the Biden administration—as being unacceptably “woke”. One analysis of a randomly chosen subset of these grants by Scott Alexander, a blogger, found that only around 40% were actually related to DEI (an analysis of all 3,476, conducted by The Economist with the help of an artificial-intelligence model, found the figure was 44%)

Ah, just 40%, no biggie.

Read it again. 40% of the 10% flagged by Cruz. So just 4% of all NSF grants were related to DEI…in some way that isn’t even apparent without actually reading the proposals.

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