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2009 US Budget Holds Mixed News For Science

Posted by kdawson on from the squishy-researchers-beware dept.

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. "

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  1. What's Mixed? by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's "mixed" about earmarks for the Creation Science Institute?

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    1. Re: What's Mixed? by Black+Parrot · · Score: 4, Funny

      What's "mixed" about earmarks for the Creation Science Institute? Great news, but unfortunately they have to split the take with the Discovery Institute and Ken Ham's dinosaurs-in-the-garden-of-eden museum.

      It's too bad a respectable organization like the Creation Science Institute has to split the funding with such poseurs.
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  2. How to get money for science! by iknownuttin · · Score: 3, Funny
    The new budget includes no funding for the National Children's Study, ... the overall discretionary budget for the Department of Health and Human Services would decline by 2% in the president's request.

    Bush is anti-children! Would someone please think of the children and fund science!!

    That'll shame him and Congress into getting more money!

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  3. Re:Yeah... by Penguinisto · · Score: 4, Funny
    That's the problem with federal funding...

    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.

    /P

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