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They're happy to fund the military, they have a list of words [1][2] that they use to flag grant applications, including "female", "bias", "political" and others. Cuts seem to be directed at biomedicine, health and social studies.

[1] https://grant-witness.us/

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/07/us/trump-fede...

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That's true, I've seen it in action, but at the same time... the number of grants and the rate of grant issuance has been very slow. They aren't using a scalpel to eliminate all the "woke".

They are also attacking Harvard, the number 1 science university in the US. There's a scandal at Harvard last month where the Dean of Science was fired because he was protesting against eliminating graduate students in the sciences (they eventually settled for something like firing him and 50% cuts to my knowledge). I have no love for Harvard by the way, I never thought I would be defending them.

The Harvard budget alone is larger than most other countries.

Some things are more important than grant money, and don't necessarily improve with larger budgets. =3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lai9QhBibk

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