Posted on 05/23/2023 10:22:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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, recent grants and requests for proposals from the National Science Foundation encompass research that:
- Examines how artificial intelligence may exhibit bias against “disadvantaged groups.”
- Looks at the negative experiences of minorities studying engineering and finds ways to create a culture that makes “diversity, equity, and inclusion a priority in the engineering enterprise.”
- Creates “equitable mathematics” by exploring how math instruction “may serve to marginalize students.”
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.
“People should realize that [we] are paying tax money to fund science that should be going to help improve people’s lives,” said Leif Rasmussen, a research Ph.D. student at Northwestern University who has analyzed NSF research grant funding in a white paper titled, “Increasing Politicization and Homogeneity in Scientific Funding.”
“That money isn’t always going to that [and] is instead pushing an agenda in which people have to use the right words,” Rasmussen adds.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearinvestigations.com ...
I wonder when there will be degrees in wokeism?
This “science” is the same as the “science” underlying German superiority.
Womens studies, Black studies? We’ve had them for decades.
“Creates “equitable mathematics” by exploring how math instruction “may serve to marginalize students.”
They just can’t seem to accept the fact that on average some minority groups do less well in math. They might as well do a study trying to find out why there aren’t more white players in the NBA. Just another joke of a study to waste tens of millions on to find out we already know the answer to.
The Bible refers to “science falsely so called” in the end times. It’s here.
Take the leftist politics OUT of NSF and NIH!!!!
The US needs to keep its leadership in science and engineering, and NEVER surrender it to leftist politics!
Otherwise—communist China will beat us!!!!
bkmk
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