Uncer­tain Prin­ci­ples responds to admo­ni­tions and poorly veiled undercurrents:

Not only does that take an incred­i­ble amount of gall to come out and say (accept­ing gov­ern­ment fund­ing does not pre­clude pri­vate polit­i­cal speech), it pretty much gives the lie to her ear­lier asser­tions that the admin­is­tra­tion and the Repub­li­can party sup­port sci­ence. Even leav­ing aside the issues raised by their cozy­ing up to cre­ation­ists and shady indus­try groups, if you really sup­port sci­ence, that sup­port should not be con­tin­gent on sci­en­tists hold­ing opin­ions that you agree with. The idea that pri­vate polit­i­cal speech by sci­en­tists would affect fund­ing deci­sions is another appalling exam­ple of the way the mod­ern Repub­li­can party places pol­i­tics ahead of policy.