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Pretty sure NSF sponsored this idiotic study, in case anyone missed it: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.18.010119

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Yep: "This work was funded in part by National Science Foundation Grant No. 1760761."

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Now how much of its R&D budget do you suppose China is spending on DIE?

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The Chinese are only spending their DIE money in the US.

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Hah. “Analytic markers for whiteness.” Strange that amount of melanin in one’s body can determine scientific thinking ability.

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The 'broader impact' nonsense was added to NSF proposal requirements before Biden. Not sure when exactly, but even years ago adding DIE goals into one's grant proposal increased the chance of getting funded.

In practice this means that a certain portion of the (already scarce) resources directed towards scientific research is being appropriated by DIE. You've got one guess as to how that portion will change in the years ahead.

As it happens (shameless plug), I gave a brief insider look at some of the nonsense that now happens on grant review panels here:

https://barsoom.substack.com/p/the-dieing-academy

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May 1, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

Check out their new directorate, TIP. Dont just read the press releases, which are carefully worded and copyedited, read through the entire solicitation:

https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22583/nsf22583.pdf

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I've made it to pg. 7, and the heavy sighing has begun.

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Apr 22, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

“Principal”, not “Principle”.

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Fixed -- thanks!

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Sure.

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Yep, insuring the products of science become dumber and dumber. Thanks government bureaucracies.

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"No stone left unturned."

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