More from the OpEd ...
... I am not making this up.
Nature, one of the world's leading science journals, reported on federal censorship of science in a June 26 article, "Inside the new political screening that's stalling NIH Grants: Mandatory reviews by top health officials and checks for 235 disfavored terms have left hundreds of vetted grant applications in administrative limbo."
President Pumpkinhead "proposed rules that would give political appointees unheard-of control over scientific grant-making," Max Kozlov reported for Nature, though he did not employ my terms for our president. Lack of imagination from a science writer, I suppose.
Trump and his Science Czar Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claim that research projects emanating from the National Institutes of Health "have been used to promote a "woke" policy agenda that did not reflect the values of the vast majority of the American public,'" Kozlov wrote, citing Trump's May 29 "proposal" to overhaul federal science grants.
The proposed rules are open to public comment until July 13. But, according to Nature, the "proposed" rules already have canceled and assigned to bureaucratic purgatory uncounted science grants.
"We're the test case," an NIH official told Kozlov. "The new rules would essentially codify the administration's ability to restrict funding on anything because they don't like the topics or the words used in the applications." ...
