{"id":37779,"date":"2025-04-02T21:14:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T21:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/nih-sued-over-ideological-purge-of-dei-covid-and-vaccine-research\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T21:14:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T21:14:25","slug":"nih-sued-over-ideological-purge-of-dei-covid-and-vaccine-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/nih-sued-over-ideological-purge-of-dei-covid-and-vaccine-research\/","title":{"rendered":"NIH sued over \u2018ideological purge\u2019 of DEI, Covid and vaccine research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agency canceled about $17bn in grants in move that went beyond Trump\u2019s orders targeting diversity, suit alleges<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/apr\/02\/donald-trump-tariffs-trade-latest-live-us-politics-news\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A group of public health experts and major labor organizations are suing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) over what they call an \u201congoing ideological purge\u201d of scientific research.<\/p>\n<p>In a legal complaint filed on Wednesday, the American Public Health Association; the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW); and other health experts say the NIH has abruptly canceled hundreds of grants since February 2025.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/02\/nih-funding-trump-lawsuit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency canceled about $17bn in grants in move that went beyond Trump\u2019s orders targeting diversity, suit alleges US politics live \u2013 latest updates A group of public health experts and major labor organizations are suing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) over what they call an \u201congoing ideological purge\u201d of scientific research. In a legal &#8230; <a title=\"NIH sued over \u2018ideological purge\u2019 of DEI, Covid and vaccine research\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/nih-sued-over-ideological-purge-of-dei-covid-and-vaccine-research\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NIH sued over \u2018ideological purge\u2019 of DEI, Covid and vaccine research\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}