Editing Discovery Institute (section)

===Other issues===
====Homelessness====
[[Christopher Rufo]], an activist who later opposed the teaching of [[critical race theory]], wrote frequently on the subject of [[homelessness]] while he worked for the Discovery Institute.<ref name="nymag-2021-07">{{cite news |last1=Jones |first1=Sarah |title=How to Manufacture a Moral Panic |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/christopher-rufo-and-the-critical-race-theory-moral-panic.html |access-date=March 29, 2022 |work=Intelligencer |date=July 11, 2021 |language=en-us |archive-date=July 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210711130537/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/christopher-rufo-and-the-critical-race-theory-moral-panic.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In his 2018  Discovery Institute-funded policy paper "Seattle Under Siege: How Seattle's Homelessness Policy Perpetuates the Crisis and How We Can Fix It," Rufo said that four groups{{emdash}}"socialist intellectuals", "compassion brigades", the "homeless-industrial complex", and the "addiction evangelists"{{emdash}}had successfully framed the debate on homelessness and diverted funding to their projects.<ref name="Walker_20181102">{{Cite news| last = Walker| first = Meghan| title = City council candidate Christopher Rufo takes on homelessness in upcoming public event| work = My Ballard| location = Ballard, Seattle| access-date = November 19, 2022| date = November 2, 2018| url = https://www.myballard.com/2018/11/02/city-council-candidate-christopher-rufo-takes-on-homelessness-in-upcoming-public-event/| archive-date = November 19, 2022| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221119200654/https://www.myballard.com/2018/11/02/city-council-candidate-christopher-rufo-takes-on-homelessness-in-upcoming-public-event/| url-status = live}}</ref><ref name="Rufo_20181016">{{cite report |last=Rufo |first=Christopher |author-link=Christopher Rufo |url=https://www.discovery.org/a/20243/ |work=Discovery Institute |date=October 16, 2018 |access-date=November 19, 2022 |title=The Politics of Ruinous Compassion: How Seattle's Homelessness Policy Perpetuates the Crisis And How We Can Fix It |series=A Discovery Institute White Paper |archive-date=November 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221119200652/https://www.discovery.org/a/20243/ |url-status=live }}</ref> He described how the "compassion brigade" had called for social justice using terms such as "compassion, empathy, bias, inequality, root causes, systemic racism."<ref name="Rufo_20181016"/> Rufo brought negative attention to All Home, which at the time was [[King County, Washington]]'s homelessness agency, by sharing a video of a [[stripper]] performing at a conference on homelessness. All Home's director was placed on [[administrative leave]] and resigned shortly thereafter.<ref name="sacbee-2019-12">{{cite news |last1=Lin |first1=Summer |title=Dancer was hired to strip at Seattle homelessness conference. The video leaked online |url=https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/article238461743.html |access-date=March 29, 2022 |work=The Sacramento Bee |date=December 27, 2019 |archive-date=July 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220721120421/https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/article238461743.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Caitlin Bassett of the Discovery Institute has contributed opinion articles that criticize governmental response to homelessness as wasteful and counterproductive to the goal of ending homelessness. The Discovery Institute opposes the [[Housing First]] approach, preferring to prioritize treating homeless people for mental illness or drug addiction.<ref name="psbj-2022-03">{{cite news |last1=Bassett |first1=Caitlin |last2=Marbut |first2=Robert |title=Opinion: Generous donation gone to waste on bad homelessness policy |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2022/03/28/bad-homelessness-policy-costs-seattle-donors.html |access-date=March 29, 2022 |work=Puget Sound Business Journal |publisher=American City Business Journals |date=March 28, 2022 |archive-date=March 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220328164701/https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2022/03/28/bad-homelessness-policy-costs-seattle-donors.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

====2020 United States presidential election====
Scott S. Powell, a senior fellow of the Institute, has promoted the false claim that the [[2020 United States presidential election]] [[Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election|was stolen]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Braterman |first=Paul |date=2021-02-04 |title=Why creationism bears all the hallmarks of a conspiracy theory |url=http://theconversation.com/why-creationism-bears-all-the-hallmarks-of-a-conspiracy-theory-153831 |access-date=2022-08-10 |website=The Conversation |language=en |archive-date=August 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811063335/https://theconversation.com/why-creationism-bears-all-the-hallmarks-of-a-conspiracy-theory-153831 |url-status=live }}</ref>