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I wonder what the mixture of academics will apply and who will be picked.

Clearly professors or scholars in Women's studies / gender studies, critical race theory, and climate science are the ones worst hit by the current leadership in the US.



> Clearly professors or scholars in Women's studies / gender studies, critical race theory, and climate science are the ones worst hit by the current leadership in the US.

Source?? Here's the thing, as far as I know, women's studies/gender studies, crt, whatever... they're cheap, mostly phd students doing mass surveys of interviews or studying metadata. The expensive stuff is engineering, clinical trials, specialized equipment for labs... that stuff is also being hit.


It’s also all science across the board. The Republicans have made sure that research goes underfunded.


> Clearly professors or scholars in Women's studies / gender studies

Good riddance. The standards for scholarship in these fields are laughable; see how Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work accepted for publication a form of Mein Kampf, rewritten to use more modern inclusive and feminist language [0] [1].

If your field of study is so epistemically bankrupt and your systems of review so defective as to not be able to identify Nazi ideology when a few words are swapped around, and to then accept those ideas for publication, it's not clear to me that you should be receiving any funding at all - particularly when it's those same fields that are so vocally and vociferously against this ideology.

[0] http://norskk.is/bytta/menn/our_struggle_is_my_struggle.pdf

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair


Sounds like you have an axe to grind.


The replication crisis hit the STEM chadlingers pretty hard as well. They are still bitter about it. As for the hoax? Garbage to sell books to the peanut galleria.


> ee how Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work accepted for publication a form of Mein Kampf, rewritten to use more modern inclusive and feminist language

Was that a troll or a serious endeavor?

Because, as a troll, it's pretty funny...




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