NSF memo implementing Trump's 'golden age' of science unsettles researchers(www.science.org)
33 pointsby hn_acker8 hours ago3 comments
  • iAMkenough4 hours ago
    National science will now change course every 4 years.

    Projects lasting longer than the current political administration are subject to losing funding and ending prematurely, wasting the previous 4 years of funding.

    • rsfern7 minutes ago
      There’s no reason it has to be like that. We could change course one more time back to a stable and non-partisan science funding landscape and then stick with it if we choose to. Even some of the alarm in this article over the proposed funding cuts isn’t set in stone, the presidential budget request from last year aimed to cut NSF by a similar amount and Congress didn’t go for it
    • Jamesbeam4 hours ago
      Yeah, guess you’ll be right.

      The worst time to be a scientist in the US since people got burned at the stake for witchcraft.

      You healed my dying cow, with those magic herbs, witch! Off with your head under my giant golden triumph arch!

      Imagine someone dictating what you should research about who does not understand how two layers of paint work with each other.

      And then starts blaming domestic terrorism on an Olympic athlete who just walked by and tried to figure out how your golf buddy fucked this reflecting pool coating up for 14 Million USD.

      And then you realise 56 million people said yes, that’s my man, I want this guy to be in charge of shaping the future of my children. Nobody hates Americans more than Americans.

    • kelipso3 hours ago
      Fully predictable result of politicizing science. Really, I blame the scientists for it.
      • jawilson24 minutes ago
        wtf, explain how you politicize cancer or Alzheimer's research?
      • Tostino2 hours ago
        You're joking, right?
        • halJordan2 hours ago
          I do. I also blame doctors for the current state of our healthcare. It's a reprehensible, pissant, milquetoast thing to stand up and say "oh i hate the way <my_system> is. But I refuse to organize to fix it and I'll externalize responsibility for change onto those outside the system being victimized, who have no power at all." Thats all scientists do, bemoaning the state of affairs it took them decades to create.

          If you thought ai data center NIMBYism was bad, ask a scientist about effecting change in their lab or field

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  • petre4 hours ago
    Grants will be awarded for proving testosterone levels mirror combat resolve /s
    • burnt-resistor4 hours ago
      Don't forget lethality vs. beer pong ability.