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2009 US Budget Holds Mixed News For Science
sciencehabit writes "ScienceNOW has the details on the impacts of President Bush's appropriation request — bad news for biomedicine, better news for the physical sciences. Some agencies really get slammed and many projects are jeopardized. The Bush administration's theory is that a 5-year run-up in National Institutes of Health funding, which ended in 2003, left the federal funding picture seriously unbalanced. Each year since then the administration's budget request for science has moved to shift the balance. Biomedical researchers are expected to lobby hard in Congress for relief. The NYTimes notes that prognosticators expect Congress not to act on a budget until the next President arrives, betting on it being a Democrat. "
You get to actually go to the moon and spend a few months there. Except you will catch cancer from the cosmic rays and you will die a horrible painful death.
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What's "mixed" about earmarks for the Creation Science Institute?
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Never been known to fail..."
Bush is anti-children! Would someone please think of the children and fund science!!
That'll shame him and Congress into getting more money!
I prefer Flambe as apposed flamebait.
and his cadre of theocrats that the heliocentric earth is an abomination in the eyes of god, an affront to the rightful god-created geocentric universe. that's why the physical sciences didn't get as shafted
poor biomedicine. we all know that messing with the building blocks of life is the devil's work, but still
maybe if someone told the theocrats that the god-given holy oil, currently unjustly in the hands of the heathen mohammedeans on the arabian peninsula, was an act of god as manifested in billion, i mean er, million, i mean er, six thousand year old organic matter. and that biological research might someday free the god-given holy oil to its rightful ownership by christian nations through artificially made, i mean er, as manifested by god working through the hands of biological researchers. then maybe they will support more biological research
amen
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
The NYTimes notes that prognosticators expect Congress not to act on a budget until the next President arrives, betting on it being a Democrat.
While the Democratically-controlled Congress may indeed delay approving a budget, I'm sure they know that the next election could just as easily put another Republican in the White House -- and that their razor-thin majority (especially in the Senate) could be lost as well, depending on the R-side coattails.
I think the goal is to not act on the budget until the next President arrives, betting on it not being an Idiot.
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At first, it's cool that you can get hold of some, then it becomes a godsend, then it's a desperately needed commodity that you must have more and more of, at any cost and damn the consequences...
Sorta like Cocaine in a way.
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How are any of those valid reasons?
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