The NSF now penalizes grant proposals that don't explicitly promote a left-wing political agenda, and the damage to science in the US is plain to see. https://cspicenter.org/reports/increasing-politicization-and-homogeneity-in-scientific-funding-an-analysis-of-nsf-grants-1990-2020/ …
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If those terms increased overall in ALL the submissions (very likely), whether they are funded or not, you would see the same trends, no? There's no way to conclude anything about bias if you don't know what the percentage in the declined proposals is. Or am I missing something?
