>Academics certainly has a liberal bias, after all, look at where they get most of their funding. It was Vannevar Bush who created the NSF. It was the Clinton

>Academics certainly has a liberal bias, after all, look at where they get most of their funding. It was Vannevar Bush who created the NSF. It was the Clinton era, IIRC, in which Republicans all of a sudden decided that funding for basic research was a partisan issue dealing with the role of government, rather than a nonpartisan matter of kicking ass and taking names.