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> Sabine got her wish. DOGE cut NSF by 40%. You think that was her wish? Typical situation is "We only get X, too much of it goes to Y, which is bad for Z". Of course X is not nego…

It might not seem like it, but I really am on your team. What you're missing and Sabine understands is that there is no such thing as spending that's insignificant, and whether we'…

As someone who is actually (still) a fan of basic research, Artemis looks like a fun time for the 1% with a $100 billion dollar price tag, except that since it's only 4 astronauts …

If you're interested in truth and not principles, why do you bring up principles? If you're interested in principles, why do you expect them from skeptics but not from boosters?

> I don't know why it is important to be unprincipled about it? Well, making new mathematical errors while trying to point out someone else's math errors isn't unprincipled. Even i…

Ed can come across as agitated and shrill, and I never stop picturing him as exactly like Jude Law's character in Contagion. But. He's still an important counterpoint to the unexam…