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I forgot to post about this yesterday. He wants to remove the peer review process from NSF grant applications. This ing guy.
"Remember SOPA? If not, perhaps the name Lamar Smith will ring a bell. The U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology chose Smith to Chair as an overseer for the National Science Foundation's funding process. Smith is preparing a bill (PDF) which will require that every grant must benefit 'national defense,' be of 'utmost importance to society,' and not be 'duplicative of other research.' Duplicating research seems reasonable until you consider that this could also mean the NSF will not provide funding for research once someone has already provided results — manufactured or otherwise. A strange target since there is a process in place which makes an effort to limit duplicate funding already. The first and second requirements, even when read in context, still miss the point of basic research. If we were absolutely without-a-doubt-certain of the results, there would be little point in doing the research in the first place."
I forgot to post about this yesterday. He wants to remove the peer review process from NSF grant applications. This ing guy.
I wish there was a different way to determine who sits on what committee than "did you vote for my bill last session"
More at:The latest example of climate denial boobery from the rich trove at Forbes and WattsUpWithThat, is Peter Ferrara’s new piece that compares climate science to Lysenkoism.
Trofim Lysenko, you’ll remember, was a Russian scientist in the Stalin era, whose theories of genetics were embraced as official government science because they were ‘consistent with certain broader Marxist doctrines”. His story is the cautionary tale of what happens when government mandated political directives override careful scientific process.
Ferrara writes: “Lysenko himself arose from a peasant background and developed his theories from practical applications rather than controlled scientific experiments. This fit the Marxist propaganda of the time holding that brilliant industrial innovations would arise from the working classes through practical applications.”
http://climatecrocks.com/2013/04/29/...arty-lysenkos/
ing House, governing this country like it's Iran.
Lovely, a fundamentalist, creationist, denier neocon in charge of the NSF disbursements. Now we just need a rep from the Flat Earth Society to round out the office.
I'm hoping for a nice, pleasant Luddite.
http://theflatearthsociety.org/
tb, if you ever get the desire to whip an entire forum into a frenzy, go there and make some claim that the Earth is a pyramid and go full mouse on it. It works wonders I tell you.
This is really really really bad news.
Repugs/Tea Baggers have NO INTENTION of doing anything good for the 99%. It's hard, deep,and fast, all the time, while protecting/enriching the 1%.
Your dirty lying teachers
use only the midnight to
midnight 1 day (ignoring
3 other days) Time to not
foul (already wrong) bible
time. Lie that corrupts earth
you educated stupid fools.
cubeless Americans deserve and shall be exterminated
like Homeland Security used to say
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You SnotBrains will know
for ignoring TimeCube.
I do not promote or suggest
anyone killing you, but you
are unfit to live on Earth.
Lamar Smith is paid well to look dumb on TV, but he isn't.
This should be a signature.
Since I have informed you of Nature's
Harmonic Time Cube 4-Day Creation
Principle, your stupidity is no longer
the issue. For now, the issue is just
how evil you are for ignoring Life's
Highest Order, and just how long the
Time Cube will allow you to plunder
Earth before inflicting upon you.
Well I'm not too sure about that. I told my dad about this last night. He does a lot of work with nasa and he and a colleague went to visit Smith in his office to talk about some stuff, and he got the impression of the lights being on but nobody was home. L
suit yourself, he's a dummy.
I don't really care one way or the other, but I haven't found him to be obviously dumb.
at any rate, calling Lamar Smith a dummy doesn't moot the proposed change.
sidebar: teapot tempest
The major source of scientific funding in the country being run by an anti-intellectual is much ado about nothing? Oh and
Wine is a Lamar Smith fan
I think this paragraph is what WH is getting to.The major source of scientific funding in the country being run by an anti-intellectual is much ado about nothing? Oh and
"Despite Webster’s amendment passing, you shouldn’t worry too much about the Duncan bill becoming law, and not just because it’d have a very hard time passing the Senate or getting President Obama’s signature. That’s because it has garnered the strong opposition of businesses. It turns out that many corporations, in particular in the retail sector, use the survey to make business decisions. For that reason, Rampell notes, business groups such as the National Retail Federation and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce issued statements supporting the ACS and, in NRF’s case, explicitly supporting keeping it mandatory last time it was threatened."
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