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Re:The End of Public Funded Research by joshfinnie on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @12:08PM (#1979661)
What is scary is people don't see the big picture, they see $750,000 to develop computer models to analyze the on-field contributions of soccer players, I see $750,000 to research another branch of game theory that could be used to help ease diplomatic tensions in third-world countries (I know it's a stretch, but go with it).

Add to the fact that, as said in other comments, the contribution to NSF is marginal when looking at the entire budget, and I feel downsizing can be found elsewhere and save our scientific research.

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Re:The End of Public Funded Research by yummyfajitas on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @01:13PM (#1979953)
I suspect the main reason the NSF was targeted is it's transparency.

As far as I know, HHS and the Office of Minority and Women's Businesses don't have a publicly available list of projects. The NSF does.

Quite a disincentive for good management, no?

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