>Science has flourished in the US precisely because it could proceed without whimsical political picking and choosing Please don't take this as a defense of th

>Science has flourished in the US precisely because it could proceed without whimsical political picking and choosing Please don't take this as a defense of the Trump administration pulling these ocean sensors, but the previous administration also had political demands on grants. One of the better articles about this I've found is "Politicizing science funding undermines public trust in science, academic freedom, and the unbiased generation of knowledge" - https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/research-metrics-and-analytics/articles/10.3389/frma.2024.1418065/full https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/research-metrics-and-an... This ended up getting grants cancelled because they'd throw in a line so the DEI checkbox would get checked, and then Cruz went through with a hacksaw and cancelled the grant for it, as Scott Alexander found - https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/only-about-40-of-the-cruz-woke-science https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/only-about-40-of-the-cruz-w...