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Posted on 05/07/2026 11:24:46 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
As the Trump administration continues its effort to root out federal funding for diversity initiatives, the National Institutes of Health has modified its grant review process to identify research that contains words associated with race or gender, which has held up some grant disbursements and forced scientists to rewrite proposals.
“I feel that this kind of censorship is making the path forward to support narrower and narrower research only to include, for example, white, straight, cisgender men,” said a program director at one of NIH’s institutes. “Any other population is being scrutinized, which is highly, highly, highly problematic for a thousand reasons. I don't want to be an instrument of an organization that is discriminating against people based on their demographics. That is 100% wrong, and I'm being forced to do that.”
The program director, who preferred to be unnamed due to fears of retaliation, told Government Executive that beginning this year employees at their institute have been required, as part of routine administrative reviews for grant applications and progress reports, to certify that the research documents do not contain certain words identified by a “text analysis tool.”
That certification refers to whether a grant has been populated into a spreadsheet for including a term flagged by the tool. Employees have not received a list of the words that the agency is searching for, but the program director and some colleagues have crowdsourced a list of terms that have previously caused problems including: diversity, equity and inclusion; gender; LGBT; racism; climate change; vaccine acceptance.
Along with seeking to terminate federal funding for DEI initiatives, the Trump administration has also canceled research related to climate change. And Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who oversees NIH, is known for spreading misinformation about vaccines.
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The NIH budget should reduced to a dollar.
>>”I don’t want to be an instrument of an organization ...”
Then they should show some principles and resign.
They could have just written “For diverse reasons,” and avoided the clumsey grammar. /S
“I feel that this kind of censorship is making the path forward to support narrower and narrower research only to include, for example, white, straight, cisgender men,”
You want the federal government to fund your project. You have to convince them to do so. They don’t have to do so. They don’t even have to offer a grant. “Censorship”?
“I feel...” Feeeeeeelings. Get a f@#$ing grip.
“an organization that is discriminating against people based on their demographics.”
LSD will rot your brain. It causes hallucinations. You are trippy enough without it. Scrutinizing woke buzz words is not discrimination. It’s getting suspicious of buzz words. Invent a new buzz word that isn’t so suspicious, and you can go on being an ass.
Fire every one of them. As far as I can tell their “research” is worthless.
Pathetic crap-weasels need to sit down and let the adults run things.
“highly, highly, highly”
yeah, that one needs to go.
“...As the Trump administration continues its effort to root out federal funding for diversity initiatives...”, which is being applauded by the rest of the country..., ....
Sing it, Cab!
Highly, highly, highly ho!
Folks, here’s the story of Newhouse the moocher
He was the soyboy with surgical sutures
He was the fragilist snowflake frail
But Newhouse had diplomas from Harvard and Yale
Highly, highly, highly ho!...
Ninety-nine percent of Trump Administration initiatives involve cleaning up democrat messes left on the kitchen floor newspaper.
Highly, highly, highly ho!
Whiney whiney whiney waah!
Whiney whiney whiney waah!
I’m butt-hurt so.
He’s butt-hurt so.
He hung around with a tranny swimmer
Gazing in his eyes his face would shimmer
He’d go on down to “china town”
And sure knew how to kick the goong around.
Highly, highly, highly ho!
Highly, highly, highly ho!
Whiney whiney whiney waah!
Whiney whiney whiney waah!
I’m butt-hurt so.
He’s butt-hurt so.
I'm betting damn near ALL of those reasons translated to dollars which needed to be laundered back to the DNC.
In a former life, I worked for a non-profit which occasionally had to write grant applications. We took the time to get acquainted with what the grantor favored and tailored the application accordingly. If it was too far of a stretch to do that, then we looked elsewhere for revenue.
It isn't rocket science.
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