Science under fire from leader-elect Eric Cantor
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Republican Whip and majority leader-elect, Virginia Congressman Eric Cantor has used his .gov website (tax payer funded) to mount an attack on science using one of his juniors Nebraska Congressman, Adrian Smith, a YOU CUT page on Cantor’s web site, fired shots over the bow of the National Science Foundation. Adrian Smith was asking for whistle blowers to turn in scientists who get “questionable grants” and the go to NSF website and browse for grants that are “a waste of taxpayers dollars.”
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[…] Eric Cantor, the upcoming Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, campaigns regularly agains…. […]
How long before one of these idiots uses the site to launch a defunding program against a liberal cause?
This is the downside of populism.
Is it really possible that all Republican lawmakers are dumb? Probably not. I suspect they simply prefer to act that way so their constituents can understand them.
Dead right, the Cantor’s of this world are playing to the crowd.
And the casual peruser will be able to discern the validity of the science how? Grant proposals are not written for the general public. They’re written for peers who understand the background of the science. All these NSF grants are rigorously peer reviewed.
You sound like you are knowledgeable on the subject Maureen, I have some inside info too, my wife has applied for many grants in her position as faculty in the Georgia University system, she has been awarded a few and rejected many more times. It’s tough to get government money, and all of her applications were related to health care, nothing oddball about that subject.