OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: Govt gave $3.3 million science grant to Northwestern for ‘safe space ambassadors.’

“The funding is designed to address the dearth of under-represented minorities in the life sciences,” the news release stated.

However, Christopher Neefus, spokesperson for Open the Books, told The College Fix that the tax dollars spent on the project detracted from real scientific inquiry. Open the Books is a fiscal watchdog organization based in Illinois where Northwestern also is located.

“The extravagant spending highlighted by Senator Paul comes at the expense of more funding for essential, truth-seeking science,” Neefus said in a recent email. “Rigorous pursuits are too often being sidelined in favor of ideologically charged, discriminatory projects that have nothing to do with research and development.

“Those fighting changes to the status quo have lamented ‘attacks on science,’ but safe spaces and ‘inclusive excellence’ hardly qualify,” he told The Fix.

Yes, but it provides makework for otherwise unemployable lefties.