Big Brother Pumpkinhead censors science

I am not making this up.

Nature, one of the world's leading science journals, reported on federal censorship of science in a June 26 article, "Inside the new political screening that's stalling NIH Grants: Mandatory reviews by top health officials and checks for 235 disfavored terms have left hundreds of vetted grant applications in administrative limbo."

President Pumpkinhead "proposed rules that would give political appointees unheard-of control over scientific grant-making," Max Kozlov reported for Nature, though he did not employ my terms for our president. Lack of imagination from a science writer, I suppose.

Trump and his Science Czar Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claim that research projects emanating from the National Institutes of Health "have been used 'to promote a "woke" policy agenda that did not reflect the values of the vast majority of the American public,'" Kozlov wrote, citing Trump's May 29 "proposal" to overhaul federal science grants.

The proposed rules are open to public comment until July 13. But, according to Nature, the "proposed" rules already have canceled and assigned to bureaucratic purgatory uncounted science grants.

"We're the test case," an NIH official told Kozlov. "The new rules would essentially codify the administration's ability to restrict funding on anything because they don't like the topics or the words used in the applications."

Here's where it really gets good, or bad. Kennedy, the Quisling in charge of the Department of Health and Human Services, which, bureaucratically, oversees the NIH, has issued a list of "235 terms" that can, and have, put the kibosh on science grants.

He's also instituted a "tool," or "algorithm" that NIH officials must "apply" after a grant applicant has cleared at least four of six hurdles before getting a research grant.

After "submission and referral," "peer review," "advisory council review" and "staff review and sign-off," there's a new kink in Step 5: "As of this year, an application in this phase is also screened for disfavored terms and concepts. If these are detected, program officers must draft a 'justification memo' to defend the award and work with the applicant to revise the application."

And what words, pray tell, might lead to the cancellation or bureaucratic death of $47 billion in science grants?

Read it and weep: Climate change, diversity (85 "terms" include this word), criminal justice, ethnic, Hispanic, historically Black, inclusive, justice, gender, identity, vaccine, and, of course, "neovagina."

Want to study crop diversity or wildlife diversity, scientists? Wash out your mouth with soap, you filthy people.

This is Stalinist science. It isn't even science. It's the science of Trofim Lysenko, a Soviet geneticist who claimed, with Stalin's enthusiastic approval, that acquired characteristics (literacy, for example) could be inherited, in the Quest to Build a New Soviet Man.

This crippled Soviet genetics for two generations: it ordered two generations of Soviet scientists to shut up.

Trump's and Kennedy's orders are an institutionalization of Hitler science, which was designed and enforced to show the inferiority of Jews — many of whom, by the way, were and are scientists.

But Trump and Kennedy have expanded the range of their targets, beyond what even Stalin and Hitler imagined: They are waging war against words. Against concepts. Against thought. Against scientists. Against science.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Science is woke. Big Brother is watching you.