'Cancel culture' colleges could soon see money targeted by Trump's NIH pick: report

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the National Institute of Health is ready to settle a score – and he’s revving up a fight against campus culture at elite universities, according to a new report.

And that could mean Stanford professor and economist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya uses the power of his position to leverage tens of billions of dollars in scientific grants to exact revenge on what he sees “as a culture of conformity in science that ostracized him” over his views on COVID-19, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

Bhattacharya, an anti-lockdown doctor, "is considering a plan to link a university’s likelihood of receiving research grants to some ranking or measure of academic freedom on campus," sources told the Journal.

But he isn’t yet sure how to measure academic freedom, the report added.

He has looked at a nonprofit with a blueprint for scoring universities in its freedom-of-speech rankings called the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, according to the Journal.

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