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Re: Words flagged in search of current NSF awards

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In what way? This is a list of words to identify applications that the Trump admin wants to deny grants to. Isn't that restricting research quite broadly based on very ideological grounds? This isn't about US research priorities, it is just political interference.

flagged != forbidden

Re: Words flagged in search of current NSF awards

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Can I see a source for “forbidden” or “banned”? I see the author claiming these words get “flagged”, but also no source other than his post. Surely HN users wouldn’t be so quick to just believe a random mastadon post because it aligns with their own , right?

Details here in Science: https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-nsf-starts...

Re: Words flagged in search of current NSF awards

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In what way? This is a list of words to identify applications that the Trump admin wants to deny grants to. Isn't that restricting research quite broadly based on very ideological grounds? This isn't about US research priorities, it is just political interference.

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Re: Words flagged in search of current NSF awards

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In particle physics we usually use these terms which will be at any proposal. This is an interesting textbook definition of false positives when you have list that is using too common words. - Minimum "Biased" data - "Discrimination" or "Discriminatory" variables - Phase space "excluded" - "Inclusion" of data/variable/anything - "inequality" -> wow bell's inequality and all this theory work about inequalities will be…

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Where is the government going to find all these censors with working minds? No American would consent to doing that unless their zeal had blinded them from something much more important than the compliance of a physics paper.
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