Wow, people really need to get off their high horse about the National Science Foundation. Yes, it is a federal agency tasked with funding basic research. No,

Wow, people really need to get off their high horse about the National Science Foundation. Yes, it is a federal agency tasked with funding basic research. No, it is not a tool for the government to invade the lives of citizens. It's easy to make headlines dismissing research by trivializing it. "The government" is just not involved in some secretive anti free speech project here, and it's simply disingenuous to make it out that way. No matter what strange research project Republicans find offends their delicate sensibilities, it is absolutely essential that we continue to fund basic research, particularly in fields like economics, math and computer science, where the NSF is the one of the only reliable sources of funding.