"If I was trying to ruin American leadership in scientific research this is pretty much the kind of rule I would write."
The rule Prof. Daniel Drezner is referring to is the OMB proposal which would require all federal grants to be approved by the president’s political appointees.
"This dismantles the post-WWII system used by NIH, NSF, DOE, NASA, ... of independent expert peer review as the primary measure of scientific merit."
https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-trump-administrations-existential
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