Posted on 01/25/2021 11:57:55 AM PST by PoliticallyShort
In 2018, the last year for which a complete picture can be discerned, the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded nearly a thousand research grants devoted in whole or part to 'diversity, inclusion, and equity' (DIE) aims, to the tune of more than $1.3 billion. From 2010 to 2018, a total of more than $4 billion have been awarded to more than 2,200 DIE-oriented grants...DIE now holds the trump card in deciding what science is worthy of funding. No matter how stellar the science, the message is clear: gobble up the DIE brainworm, or your funding will dry up, and your career along with it.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanmind.org ...
I guess serious scientists are going to resort to robbing banks like Dr. Octavius (of Spiderman fame).
Everything touched by Progressives, dies !
Everything.
$4 Billion + of taxpayer dollars spent to try and give legitimacy to a false narrative.
To put this into perspective, the total NSF budget in 2018 was just $6.653 billion (including agency internal bureaucracy overhead). They issued 8,000 research grants, TOTAL. The agency, which is supposed to fund actual SCIENCE, has instead been funding Leftist academics engaged in race theory.
https://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/fy2018/index.jsp
This is a story of the slow descent into a Dark Age, where knowledge is replaced by superstition.
I think it means quotas for research teams: https://www.nsf.gov/od/odi/diversity.jsp
terminal cancer in all sectors
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