Report: DEI Is Transforming the National Science Foundation | The Free Press

If you thought the august National Science Foundation focused only on string theory or the origins of life, you haven t spent much time in a university lab lately. Thanks to a major shift endorsed by the Biden administration, recent grants have gone to researchers seeking to identify hegemonic narratives and their effect on non-normative forms of gender and sexuality, plus systematic racism in the education of math teachers and sex/gender narratives in undergraduate biology and their impacts on transgender, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming students.  

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If find this both discouraging and puzzling. But then it probably should not be puzzling, as all endeavors in which a government is involved are sure to be politicized.