The Numbers Are In on How Biden-Era Funding Is Skewing Scientific Research Ever-Wokeward

The Numbers Are In on How Biden-Era Funding Is Skewing Scientific Research Ever-Wokeward
President Joe Biden in a file photo on Nov. 9, 2022. POTUS Office
Steve Miller
RealClearInvestigations
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While pushing record spending for research and development, the Biden administration is working not just to advance science but also progressive ideology. In line with the administration’s “whole of government” commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), recent grants and requests for proposals from the National Science Foundation (NSF) encompass research that:Critics, including some scientists, claim such projects are outside the scope of the National Science Foundation, whose $10 billion annual budget is one of the government’s prime mechanisms for supporting basic research in the non-medical sciences. Through 11,000 awards each year to academic and corporate researchers, the NSF sets the agenda for inquiry in a wide variety of fields including computer science, environmental science, mathematics, engineering, and the social and psychological sciences.
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