The End of Public Funded Research
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The End of Public Funded Research
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Re: The End of Public Funded Research
#2Although this article is a bit scary, the title is completely editorialized. Nowhere does it indicate that this is the "end of public research." The republicans are simply asking Americans to review publicly funded projects.
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#3You have one person to blame for most of this: Palin, and her "fruit flies in France" spending. This might change a lot, or might not change how science is funded at all. But if the Republicans get the presidency, the house and senate, expect a lot of change, to the worse.
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#4I guess it's time for more millionaire gentlemen hacker yo set up projects to displace taxpayer funded research project.
Perhaps, we could set up a large research foundation funded ordinary people like you and me everyday. For example, if there are 20,000 people paying 5 bucks a month, that's 100,000. By the end of the year, that's 12 million.
Technologies are making it easier to reduce our administrative costs and allow volunteers to collaborate over the internet.
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#5Title is blatant editorializing. Editors, please change it.
This is an attempt to crowdsource the process of finding wasteful spending within a government agency. I.e., instead of saying "hey, the NSF has too much money, lets cut the total budget", Congressman Smith wants to cut specific wasteful items from the NSF budget (presumably while preserving the useful ones).
I suspect this is an effort to head off claims like "the end of publicly funded research." If this project is successful, Smith can point out that he doesn't oppose publicly funded research, only items like "$750,000 to develop computer models to analyze the on-field contributions of soccer players".
I also suspect that the main reason he is targeting the NSF is that it's an easy target. To find items to cut, anyone can just go to the NSF's website ( http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/reset.do?dispatch=2&FormR... ). As far as I know, bigger and more wasteful agencies (e.g., DOJ, DOE, Homeland Security) don't have similar websites.
[edit: to clarify, I'm not arguing it's a good idea. I'm just pointing out that it is nothing whatsoever like what the HN title suggests.]
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#6At this point, it's probably worth pointing out that a lot of the value of the NSF derives from its political independence.
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#7Is there an award number for airport body scanners? ;)
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#8People seem really up-in-arms about this. I don't see the harm in having people look through the information and making recommendations. It's what the people do with these recommendations that matter.
One person that disagrees with something (for whatever reason) probably won't be enough to abandon research on it. I'm cool with taking a look at what is there.
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#9I guess it's time for more millionaire gentlemen hacker yo set up projects to displace taxpayer funded research project. Perhaps, we could set up a large research foundation funded ordinary people like you and me everyday. For example, if there are 20,000 people paying 5 bucks a month, that's 100,000. By the end of the year, that's 12 million. Technologies are making it easier to reduce our administrative costs and a…
*1.2 million
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#10The entire NSF budget is $7.424 Billion. That’s about the same as the amount the Federal government spends on farm subsidies for corn alone.
Ref:
http://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/fy2011/index.jsp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_subsidy#United_Sta...