Under Lonnie G. Bunch III’s leadership, President Trump accused the Smithsonian of liberal, anti-American bias. Supporters say he was dedicated to nonpartisan scholarship.
‘It was litigation strategy dressed up in a lab coat’
A trove of thousands of documents include an email from Marcia McNutt, who was then-president of the National Academies of Sciences, asking to use funding to block the EPA from rescinding the endangerment finding, which she said was supported by “climate deniers.”
Kids are simply unmentionable
Immigration, education, crime and punishment. Take your pick
The National Academy of Sciences has been forced to remove a long-disputed climate-science chapter from an influential judicial reference manual, but critics say its own internal process review is not enough to repair the damage done by the 183-year-old institution which was founded by President Abraham Lincoln.The disputed climate-science chapter appeared in the 2025 fourth […]
The National Academy of Sciences has been forced to remove a long-disputed climate-science chapter from an influential judicial reference manual, but critics say its own internal process review is not enough to repair the damage done by the 183-year-old institution which was founded by President Abraham Lincoln. The disputed climate-science chapter appeared in the 2025 fourth edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, produced by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) with the Federal Judicial Center (FJC). The manual was intended to “help” federal judges evaluate complex scientific and technical evidence presented in court . But the FJC had to remove the chapter after Republican attorneys…Open
Originally posted by The University of Texas at Austin Civitas Institute
Some AI systems appear to have been trained to handle anti-Semitism in a way that is at once serious and shallow. Most name-brand public AI assistants understate or deny ideological guardrails that push biases, censor facts, and twist narratives. More than 99 percent of users accept these falsehoods without pushback, according to Perplexity, one of the more reliable public-facing AI chatbots. And so built-in narratives, churned through authoritative- and neutral-sounding AI platforms with an air of sophistication and certainty, become further embedded into the public psyche. These household-name AI companies rely so heavily on Wikipedia to train their artificial intelligence that they cannot, or will not, escape its gravitational pull. As…Open
By Jack Hellner The modern media will promote or hide facts depending on the effect the differing tactics will have on Trump’s standing.