Feds push DEI research, more WH-social media collusion? and other commentary

“DEI considerations now profoundly shape” National Science Foundation grant decisions, notes Rupa Subramanya at The Free Press.More than 10% of all grants from 2021 to 2024, totaling more than $2 billion, “prioritized attributes of the grant proposals other than their scientific quality.” That figure jumps to 27% just for the first part of 2024.

Projects funded include “researchers seeking to identify ‘hegemonic narratives’” plus “‘systematic racism’ in the education of math teachers.” No wonder 27% of Americans “say that they have ‘not too much’ or ‘no’ confidence in scientists to act in the public interest,” per Pew.But “it’s not just the public’s trust that is at issue — it’s also the quality of the science that NSF grants produce.”“Critics of the Biden-Harris administration are being silenced,” frets the Washington Times’ editorial board.

Rep.Jim Jordan suspects Google and YouTube may have “censored FBI whistleblower Marcus Allen at the request of the White House” after a YouTube video he appeared on, where he “prayed the rosary and discussed his experience at the FBI,” was removed for somehow violating community guidelines.

He also lost his “his security clearance” after warning there was another side to the story about what happened at the US Capitol on Jan.6, 2021 and expressing concerns with the early COVID vaccine.

Fortunately, after “nearly 2 1⁄2 years on unpaid leave” Allen was finally “reinstated this year after taking his story public.” That “should embolden others to blow the whistle on misconduct.”At University of Michigan last spring, “pro-Palestinian students ..

.shut down the student government, insisting they would turn the spigot back on only once the university divested” from Israel, sighs Commentary’s Seth Mandel.

Student activities were suddenly defunded.The Ultimate Frisbee team was left without money to compete, and a ballroom dance team was unable t...