Oh no dude, everyone wants nonsense research going on. Or maybe it's 1) hard to tell what's nonsense ex ante (thus the existence of "research"), and 2) more ob

Oh no dude, everyone wants nonsense research going on. Or maybe it's 1) hard to tell what's nonsense ex ante (thus the existence of "research"), and 2) more obviously, what's going on right now is not even allegedly an effort to make research funding more sensible. It is all very explicitly a pressure campaign to get the higher education system to conform to the current administration’s political views. Downvoted not because I want nonsense research, but because the guy saying "you know we could use some more open space!" while an arsonist sets fire to a neighborhood is making a profoundly low-quality contribution. Doing it with smugness is downright detestable. :-)