While it may not make for a good bumper sticker or hat, President-elect Donald Trump has a mandate to make science great again. He should start with federal research grants.
November’s election was, in part, a referendum on the Left’s distorted view of science. One party — we’ll let you guess which one — insisted that COVID-19 lockdowns and school closures, so-called “gender-affirming care,” and diversity, equity, and inclusion mandates were all scientific certitudes — never mind the nonexistent or fabricated data to support them. The other party promised to try to send men to Mars.
President Joe Biden made DEI a top priority for federal scientific grant-making, part of a whole-of-government commitment to this Marxist worldview. According to an analysis by the House Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, the National Science Foundation subsequently…