As the Royal Society got more woke, less and less went on science, and more on woke projects and the like. In 2023 and 2024, 1 in 4 grants went to non-science areas. Now with a new ministerial direction, this is down to 1 in 12.
This is why who makes up Government does matter. Here’s some of the great projects being funded that may have missed out previously for nonsense such as $360,000 to collect disabled indigenous stories about climate change!
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
This is why who makes up Government does matter. Here’s some of the great projects being funded that may have missed out previously for nonsense such as $360,000 to collect disabled indigenous stories about climate change!
- Breaking the N₂ Barrier: Ion-Beam-Engineered Vanadium Oxynitrides for Ambient Electrochemical Ammonia Synthesis
- Combating drug resistance in cancers using shape-shifting inhibitors of DNA-mutating enzymes
- Genetic and structural basis of antibiotic resistance spread: targeting a bacteria-bacteriophage partnership
- Harnessing beneficial host-microbe interactions in the respiratory tract to improve infectious disease outcomes
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
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and it would take Liebour less than a minute to move the focus back to Maori, identity and politics. Right, now Judith has sorted this, let's see some action on having English First in ALL public service machinations!
Totally agree, they have made science great again. No more whale songs to trees, no more investigating large carrots in Ohakune. Common sense prevails. Well done.
Common sense prevails, but for how long in this woke environment?
The incredible thing, for me, is that this correction had to be enacted in the first place.
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