[takluyver]

The requirements the GP is describing are to avoid using certain words. It's not fraudulent to describe the same work without using the banned words.

[qcnguy]

That's definitely not the requirement! The requirement is to avoid doing certain kinds of "research" that the government disagrees is valid research to fund, characterized by the principles underlying it.

They may have started by using certain keywords to find examples of such grants to terminate, but the requirement itself has nothing to do with words and everything to do with the intentions.

[acdha]

The “requirements” are vague and still being litigated against congressional intent, but the problem is the scale: when you have so many complex things to review and only a few trusted political apparatchiks, they end up doing things like simple keyword searches for terms like “diversity” and “inclusion” blithely aware of those being used in fields such as geology.

I know this because I know people who’ve had to take time away from their research to keep their grants from being cancelled.

[convolvatron]

I know someone whose grant was cancelled for studying genetic diversity in animal populations.