Court Strikes Down NIH’s Unlawful Termination Of Research Grants On Topics Including DEI And Gender Identity

Court Strikes Down NIH’s Unlawful Termination Of Research Grants On Topics Including DEI And Gender Identity

The ACLU reports that in a sweeping rebuke, a court ruled that NIH’s actions targeting research involving “disfavored” topics and populations were unlawful, arbitrary, and capricious, and therefore void.  Read more at the ACLU

Court Strikes Down NIH's Unlawful Termination of Research Grants on

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) — the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research — began an ideological purge of its grants in February. Without warning, hundreds of research projects were abruptly cancelled. The NIH targeted research that was purportedly connected to “gender identity” and “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), or other topics such as vaccine hesitancy and COVID-19 based on sweeping, unsubstantiated, and pol…