Submission statement: the author conducts an informal study on Ted Cruz’ database of scientific grants that Cruz believes should be defunded on account of being politically biased for progressive culture war reasons, and finds that most of them are false positives. One example is a grant that was apparently excluded on the basis of the sentence “The fellow will research horned beetles, which are well known for their diverse forms of environment-dependent development, in order to understand how environment affects gene regulation to promote diversity.”; the “diversity” in this context just refers to genetic diversity, so apparently this one was just added to the list on the basis of having a bad political keyword with no regard to context. The author claims that this should be alarming even if you think the true positives are actually bad (which the author does, kind of)
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I’m shocked that a Republican is sponsoring a half-baked anti-science measure.
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Submission statement: the author conducts an informal study on Ted Cruz’ database of scientific grants that Cruz believes should be defunded on account of being politically biased for progressive culture war reasons, and finds that most of them are false positives. One example is a grant that was apparently excluded on the basis of the sentence “The fellow will research horned beetles, which are well known for their diverse forms of environment-dependent development, in order to understand how environment affects gene regulation to promote diversity.”; the “diversity” in this context just refers to genetic diversity, so apparently this one was just added to the list on the basis of having a bad political keyword with no regard to context. The author claims that this should be alarming even if you think the true positives are actually bad (which the author does, kind of)
I’m shocked that a Republican is sponsoring a half-baked anti-science measure.