Second Letter to President Trump Concerning Politically Correct Superstition at NSF

Dear Mr. President:

Yesterday I emailed regarding an article by Professor Philip Salzman concerning corrupt political correctness at the National "Science" Foundation.  I followed up with an email to Professor Salzman in Canada, and he responded.  I asked him who in NSF has been willing to compromise science for political correctness.  His answer is below (copied with his permission): The corruption is throughout the National "Science" Foundation. All are beholden to superstitious feminists.  Perhaps it is time to drain the NSF swamp. Professor Salzman's email follows:

Dear Professor Langbert,

Many thanks for your letter. I agree that it is very alarming when institutional custodians of science bow to, or worse, enthusiastically embrace "social justice" ideology, raising "diversity and inclusion" above merit and achievement.

To answer your question, I know NSF only from the outside, from its spoken policies and its deeds. I cannot tell you who makes these decisions, but this new culture is so pervasive, it would probably not be correct to imagine that it is the work of one or two people. I do applaud your representations to NSF.

Best wishes, 

 Philip Carl Salzman

Anti-Science Democrats Stop Funding of Research on Male-Female Differences

Professor Emeritus Philip Carl Salzman of McGill University has written a piece in Canada's Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship's SAFS Newsletter about anti-science Democrats' opposition to funding of high-quality research on male-female differences.  I sent a letter to Prof. Salzman asking for further information about the corrupt administrators in NSF, and I followed up with the following email to President Trump:

Dear Mr. President:

I sent this letter to Prof. Salzman in Canada, who has identified corruption in the National Science Foundation. Specifically, the NSF has allowed politically motivated feminist bigots to stop legitimate research concerning male-female differences. It is time to drain the swamp at NSF and to fire the administrators who stopped funding of the research.

Dear  Prof. Salzman:

I saw your piece in SAFS Newsletter, and I was interested in your statement that a scientific paper concerning the greater male variability hypothesis was denied funding because of political intervention in the processes of the National Science Foundation. Apparently, an anti-science, politically funded feminist group, Women in Mathematics, has access to decision makers in the Orwellian-named “National Science Foundation” and was able to stop scientific research through political pressure, apparently in favor of superstition.  Perhaps the “National Science Foundation” should be renamed the “National Superstition Foundation.”

Do you have access to or do you know someone who has access to the names of the specific decision makers in the “National Science Foundation” who have allowed political advocacy to overturn science?  I am contacting the president separately and suggesting that the age of politicization be brought to a quick end at NSF, or else that the NSF has outlived its purpose and should be closed.

Sincerely,


Professor Mitchell Langbert 

The Politicization of Science

Heather MacDonald of City Journal wrote a frustrating but riveting piece about the cooptation of the National Science Foundation by the political correctness movement. It's not surprising, but MacDonald provides the gory details of the politicization of science. What have the Republicans and Trump been doing about this? My guess is nothing so far. (H/t Dan Elmendorf.)