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This is even worse than thinking about taking dinosaurs off of Isla Sorna.

 

U.S. Lawmaker Proposes New Criteria for Choosing NSF Grants

 

The new chairman of the House science committee has drafted a bill that, in effect, would replace peer review at the National Science Foundation (NSF) with a set of funding criteria chosen by Congress. For good measure, it would also set in motion a process to determine whether the same criteria should be adopted by every other federal science agency.

 

Funding criteria chosen by the Republican congress, many of whom wouldn't know good science if it bit them on the ass, and belittle any science they don't understand or whose conclusions are disagreeable to their ideology. Which is most science.
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