>What is this, North Korea?
Given how mind-numbingly servile the ruling party is to their autocrat, it sure looks like North Korea sometimes.
replyNo it's worse than that. Your grant application must be actively aligned with their political agenda. If you are polite, deferential and apolitical but you want to study climate change you will be rejected.
replyAhh, so I should study vaccines and autism and tylenol
replyAnd gas stoves, why wind turbines are bad for golf courses, the effects of nuclear weapons on hurricanes, the favorability decline of Robert E Lee, invisibility for stealth fighters, the rapid death of the US farmer due to solar panels, and the impact of tariffs on consumer prices...
replyWait, maybe not that last one.