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You 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 fund
by bioinformatics 16y ago
You 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.
- yummyfajitas 16y agoIf Republican presidents behave as they have in the past, science funding is likely to increase. http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/trtot08p.pdf http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/trtot08p.pdf http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/trres08p.pdf http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/trres08p.pdf Don't know about the house and senate.
- juiceandjuice 16y agohttp://www.nsf.gov/about/congress/107/highlights/cu02_1219.jsp http://www.nsf.gov/about/congress/107/highlights/cu02_1219.j... Long story short: Republicans go along with the minimum budget increase possible.
- yummyfajitas 16y agoSo how come the minimum budget increase possible was so large under Bush, also fairly large under Reagan, but so small under Clinton?
- stygianguest 16y agoI'm really dissapointed that the ministery of peace has always gotten more research money than the normal variety. It seems hard to defend especially since the cold war ended. Some people must be really eager to start a new cold war with China. Depressing.
- yummyfajitas 16y agoThe military funds a huge amount of basic research. For example, a huge amount of computational E&M is funded by the military. Most of it is published in non-classified (though paywalled) journals and is directly useful to anyone building E&M communication or sensor devices. (I cite computational E&M specifically because I used to work in that field.)