> Instead they are simply stripping ideological requirements, period. That is literally the opposite of what the linked article claims. They aren't "stripping

> Instead they are simply stripping ideological requirements, period. That is literally the opposite of what the linked article claims. They aren't "stripping requirements" placed on funding, they're stripping the actual funds from existing grants, based on new requirements that just happen to be phrased along the lines of the ruling regime's political rhetoric. Your Orwellian version only makes sense if you assume a priori that the funds were granted incorrectly, which again is sort of the opposite of what science is.