Stupid is as stupid does:

Brooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social

ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh.

This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much:

A Study of Mint Plants. A Device to Stop Bleeding. This Is the Scientific Research Ted Cruz Calls "Woke."

The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like "female" and "diversify." A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude method for identifying research he calls "woke."