Trofim Lysenko (on the left), preaching to Stalin as he destroyed
Soviet plant research by persecuting anyone who disagreed with him,
thus causing famines that killed millions. He is now the role model for
today’s entire science community.

Cue the world’s smallest violin! An article today in the journal Science proves once again that science has nothing to do with what that journal now publishes. The headline:

‘This is censorship.’ Conference requires abstracts to comply with Trump anti-DEI order

It seems scientists submitting abstracts to the annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) in Texas are upset because the Trump administration will not allow any papers to include any mention of diversity, equity, or inclusion (DEI) as a topic.

The Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), hosted annually by the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in Texas, last week announced a new requirement for the upcoming 2026 conference: All submitted abstracts must comply with executive orders from the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. His 20 January executive order called DEI “illegal and immoral discrimination programs” and terminated both federal DEI programs as well as grant funding for DEI initiatives. The conference policy follows moves earlier this year by LPI’s parent organization, the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), to scrub DEI-related content—including archived LPSC abstracts—from its websites.

Researchers are fuming, saying LPSC is doubling down on its previous decisions, and prioritizing avoiding trouble with the government over intellectual freedom. “This is censorship,” says planetary scientist Paul Byrne of Washington University in St. Louis. “Even if the percentage of people who would normally write a DEI abstract is small, a much larger percent are pissed off.”

In other words, the science community wants to support DEI racial discrimination, because it is designed to favor the racial and sexual groups they favor. To them it is more important to infuse these bigoted ideas into all science, rather than actually report real research about the solar system and planets.

Even though USRA has complied with the Trump order, it has done so superficially, archiving the scrubbed papers so they can be “restored” the instant a Democrat takes power again and re-institutes DEI policies and racial quotas across the board.

Meanwhile, even as Science screams “censorship!” in this article, it has also been quite comfortable publishing an op-ed in June [pdf] advocating a boycott of the LPSC conference and demanding a new annual conference be established that will allow this focus on LGBTQ+ issues to be expanded throughout planetary research.

In other words, who cares about actual research? It is far more important to push political ideology and racial and sexual quotas across all science, even though such quotas are expressly illegal according to the 1964 Civil Rights Act as well as numerous other subsequent city, state, and federal laws.

Taken from NASA’s Biden-era DEI Equity
plan, still available on line here [pdf].

The bottom line is that DEI is all about promoting bigotry, and nothing else, as shown by the graphic to the right, taken from the Biden-era NASA Equity Plan [pdf] that is still available on line. It outlines the agency’s agenda under Biden to institute racial and sexual hiring quotas in great detail. For example, NASA set aside $2.3 billion to award contracts and grants expressly to minorities, women, and the LGBTQIA+ community. It also absurdly demanded an “Equity in Climate Data Accessibility and Environmental Justice” program to make sure climate research adhered to DEI and the queer agenda.

That Trump is trying to cleanse science of this political garbage is wonderful news. That the so-called science journal Science and the science community wants this political garbage tells us they no longer follow the scientific method and its unvarnished search for the truth.

Nope. To hell with research and discovering truth! We gotta help those minority communities, no matter what! And if it means we discriminate based on race, gender, and sexual preference, so be it!