To be clear, while there is _specific_ language around DEI/gender identity, the actual language of parts of this goes far, far further, and essentially codifies giving political appointees explicit discretion over what gets funded and what conferences scientists with government funds can go to, and disallows any government money to go towards publishing research.
I agree there are serious concerns and drawbacks with giving appointees discretion. But the reason they did this is likely that agencies otherwise have a way of basically doing their own thing, and not complying with language. One example that isn’t about DEI. is Fauci working around restrictions on gain of function research, following the ban Obama put into place. You can have language around DEI or gender identity (or some issue on the other side) but people can find ways around it.
That's a fair objection, but it's not OK to politicize everything else in science just because a few idiots handed your party an unusually-catchy wedge issue.
Climate science is not "woke." Basic and applied research at agencies like NASA is not "woke." Math departments are not "woke." NIST is not "woke." Yet all of their funding is under threat by the Trump administration and Republicans in general.
Money was paid to Mary Theofanos and Justyna Zwolak, and their supervisors to produce this crap, instead of researchers and engineers that do real things.
What specific part of this study do you think is a "cancer"?
> over a third of all respondents expressed beliefs that the best opportunities do not go to the most deserving employees but rather are given based on who one knows
Sounds like a real problem in the culture at NIST that should be fixed.
What kind of PUAHate incel loser angrily calls out women scientists by name because they carried out a large-scale analysis of NIST HR data, incomes, and a survey? What part of that isn't "real things" to you? What a tiny little worldview you have.
Religion used to be the biggest supporter of science. Then science surpassed religion in civilization relevancy. Now conservative politics is stepping up to the fight.
The party is against reality broadly, is Ballardian Hyper Reality writ large. A fabricated world of nonsense and fear mongering. Being opposed to science is the only thing that makes sense those who so broadly are opposed to truth and peace.
The ultra wealthy that fund them are also all too happy to see proud institutions hollowed out, happy to see knowledge workers cast out of good worthy public effort and prestigious storied jobs, and made to look for corporate jobs.
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[ 2.2 ms ] story [ 38.9 ms ] threadClimate science is not "woke." Basic and applied research at agencies like NASA is not "woke." Math departments are not "woke." NIST is not "woke." Yet all of their funding is under threat by the Trump administration and Republicans in general.
Money was paid to Mary Theofanos and Justyna Zwolak, and their supervisors to produce this crap, instead of researchers and engineers that do real things.
> over a third of all respondents expressed beliefs that the best opportunities do not go to the most deserving employees but rather are given based on who one knows
Sounds like a real problem in the culture at NIST that should be fixed.
What kind of PUAHate incel loser angrily calls out women scientists by name because they carried out a large-scale analysis of NIST HR data, incomes, and a survey? What part of that isn't "real things" to you? What a tiny little worldview you have.
The ultra wealthy that fund them are also all too happy to see proud institutions hollowed out, happy to see knowledge workers cast out of good worthy public effort and prestigious storied jobs, and made to look for corporate jobs.