Following Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-T.X.) release of a report detailing how the National Science Foundation funding “flows to support left-wing ideological crusades masked as ‘academic research,’” Cornell researchers have reacted with both criticism and support.  Cruz, the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee chairman, released a database on Feb. 11 identifying over 3,400 National Science Foundation grants — including 22 awarded to Cornell  — as “promot[ing] Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) or advanc[ing] neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda.” How NSF Funding Is Awarded The NSF — an independent executive agency — funds fundamental research in science and engineering, excluding medical sciences. The 22 Cornell NSF grants scrutinized by U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman…