The executive order, titled "Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking", grants political appointees sweeping authority over all federal grant funding.
If implemented, political appointees — not scientists — would take control over decisions about research grants. It would, among other changes, allow political appointees to overrule advice from scientists on award decisions, and let them terminate ongoing grants based on political criteria.
Lysenkoism... Since the world is 6K years old and we have the Bible, what's left to fund? We have all the answers and what we don't know can't be known. Cue St. Augustine.
Par for the course. The administration's hostility to freedom generally is solidly established. It would be surprising if they had a different attitude toward science.
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[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 15.1 ms ] threadIf implemented, political appointees — not scientists — would take control over decisions about research grants. It would, among other changes, allow political appointees to overrule advice from scientists on award decisions, and let them terminate ongoing grants based on political criteria.