The Trump administration’s ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in the federal government has sent shock waves through science institutions around the country.
Way back in 2021, I wrote about how institutions of medicine were promoting transgender ideology with little scientific justification. They used their institutional credibility to promote left-wing political views.
It went beyond just transgenderism. One institution of science, medicine, and technology after another became converted to a temple of wokeness, forgoing objectivity and scientific rigor for the zeal of cultural revolution.
That perverse dynamic appears to be unraveling.
The New York Times reported on Sunday that President Donald Trump’s DEI ban via executive order is completely changing at least the outward direction of scientific institutions—along with many…