In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”.

At least 16 termination letters have already been sent out… And hundreds more will be coming, say two NIH officials, who requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the press.

The agency, based in Bethesda, Maryland, has now asked its employees to review new and ongoing projects for any DEI activities and to place them in one of four categories: projects that solely support DEI-related activities (category one), projects that partially support these activities (category two), projects that do not support these activities but include some DEI-related language (category three) and projects that do not support any DEI activities (category four).

Mind you: this is an administration where the president had trouble differentiating between “transgenic” and “transgender” mice.

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