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Editorial: Censoring the scientific enterprise, one grant at a time

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Executive Order 14168 ordered the NSF (and other federal agencies) to discontinue any research that focused on women, women in STEM, gender variation, and transsexual or transgender populations.

Another round of cancellations targeted research on misinformation and disinformation, a subject that Ted Cruz views as advancing neo- Marxist perspectives and class warfare.

Misinformation research is vital to advancing our understanding of how citizens understand and process evidence.