The National Science Foundation (NSF) spent more than $2 billion of taxpayers’ money imposing “woke” ideology on scientific research over the course of the Biden administration, according to a new report from the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation.
“3,483 grants, more than ten percent of all NSF grants and totaling over $2.05 billion in federal dollars, went to questionable projects that promoted diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) tenets or pushed onto science neo-Marxist perspectives about enduring class struggle,” the report found. Those grants fell into five categories: “Status, Social Justice, Gender, Race, and Environmental Justice.” Perhaps most significantly, the Biden administration raised DEI’s share of total NSF disbursements from 0.29 percent in 2021 to more than 27 percent as of April 2024.
Highlights include $2 million to address “anti-black racism” in engineering curricula at University of California Berkeley and the University of South Florida, and a projected $786,285 price tag for a “hub for justice-centered science education” fixating on the “interwoven nature of climate justice and racial justice” at San Jose State University.
Calling the findings “only the tip of the iceberg,” University of Southern California chemist Anna Krylov told The College Fix that in “addition to these grants that are clearly dedicated to advancing the Critical Social Justice agenda (which commonly operates under the name of DEI), the ideological, non-scientific criteria are also applied to funding of technical projects…This is done either through the mandatory DEI statements or through the ‘Broader Impact’ criteria, or both.”