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The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia

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146 points MaysonL | 3 comments | 12 May 25 02:34 UTC | HN request time: 1.033s | source
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gotoeleven ◴[12 May 25 04:01 UTC] No.43959536[source]▶
I didn't look at every one on the list of these 1000 NSF grants that were cancelled:

https://airtable.com/appGKlSVeXniQZkFC/shrFxbl1YTqb3AyOO?jnt...

but I think if you skim the titles you can sense a theme.

Here's the very first one: "Cambio: A Professional Development Approach for Building Latinx-focused Cultural Competence in Informal Science Education Institutions" for a whopping 2.8 million dollars.

This is not basic research, this is not important research, this is left wing politics parasitically attached to scientific institutions.

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eli_gottlieb ◴[12 May 25 05:37 UTC] No.43959942[source]▶
Can you show that the left-wing politics added up to 55% of the NSF's total budget and stretched across all 37 of its directorates? Because those are what's getting cut.
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1. fsckboy ◴[12 May 25 05:52 UTC] No.43960016[source]▶
>Can you show that the left-wing politics added up to 55% of the NSF's total budget

55% of academia left-wing and/or marketing to left wing bureaucrats? is that even not possible? that was true in the Reagan era before the Clinton era put it on steroids.

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2. eli_gottlieb ◴[12 May 25 05:58 UTC] No.43960053[source]▶
Ok, so show me, using the sources given above and available via the NSF website, that 55% of the NSF's total budget is spent promoting left-wing politics instead of real science.
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3. eli_gottlieb ◴[12 May 25 14:14 UTC] No.43963176{3}[source]▶
> you believe that evidence is important. I have not declared that

If you wanna believe government rationales for their actions until proven otherwise, you go ahead with that.

Sucker.