Category Archives: NSF

NIH, NSF, and DOE Could Get Clobbered Thanks to Fiscal ‘Austerity’

Posted on July 28, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

This is why all the concern about the fake crisis of the U.S. budget deficit is so harmful–it has real effects on people’s lives, including scientists.
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Posted in Funding, NIH, NSF | 6 Comments

Coburn’s NSF Idiocy

Posted on May 31, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

Sound and fury, signifying crapola.
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Posted in Conservatives, Funding, NSF | 5 Comments

The Future of Science Funding Is a Microcosm of What Happened in This Election

Posted on November 5, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

Standard operating procedure for Democrats.
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Posted in Democrats, Funding, NIH, NSF | 4 Comments

Republicans Tank Science COMPETES Bill with Bogus Anti-Porn Clause

Posted on May 14, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

Killing the COMPETES Act with a poison porn pill.
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Posted in Conservatives, NSF, Pig Screwer, The War on Science | 6 Comments

Hannity and Carlson’s War on Entomology

Posted on March 16, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

It’s nothing more than Palinist politics of the blood, with scientists cast in the role of the ‘unreal’ Americans.
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Posted in Conservatives, Funding, Insects, NSF, The War on Science | 11 Comments

Why I Am Voting for Martha Coakley

Posted on January 18, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

Brown is horrid–do we really need another ideologically crazed movement conservative blow-dried haircut? So vote Coakley, even if she did run a horrible campaign. And remember: Republicans don’t fund science very well either.
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