America's National Science Foundation tells DEI, misinfo studies: You're fired

[erronis]

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/21/nsf_cancel_awards_dei/

No one should be excluded – unless you have certain views on the Mid-East crisis

In line with Trump administration directives, the US government's National Science Foundation has started canceling grants for studies into workplace diversity and the spread of misinformation.

NSF director Sethuraman Panchanathan laid it out plainly in a Friday statement: The federal agency uses just two statutory criteria to judge every funding proposal. First, does it have the potential to advance new knowledge? (What NSF calls "intellectual merit.&quot And second, will it have a meaningful impact on the nation and its people? ("broader impacts" in NSF-speak.)

If a proposal doesn't check both boxes, it doesn't get the money. And in today's political climate, that means projects focused on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) are headed for the chopping block, including those trying get more women and members of underrepresented groups to participate in STEM.

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"NSF will not support research with the goal of combating 'misinformation,' 'disinformation,' and 'malinformation' that could be used to infringe on the constitutionally protected speech rights of American citizens," the foundation said, leaving aside the irony of the regime claiming to care about "free speech" while detaining foreigners legally in the United States for activities like co-writing a pro-Palestinian op-ed in a student newspaper.

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[Johonny]

1. So basically only penis enlargement funding

And boner pills are safe.

You know, the heart of American research efforts.