Politics by another means?

[N.MacLeod@xxxxxxxxx (N. MacLeod)]

I've been getting more disturbing reports about a debate evidently going on
in the US media right now about public funding for science.  The refrain I
keep hearing is that the US public (a polite euphemism for various groups
of politicians?) is tired of funding science they don't understand.  They
(the public, or is it the politicians?) want the money to go to science
projects they really care about, like UFO's, and astology.  Can someone
take pity on us over here in the "old country" and tell us what is really
going on over there and how it might affect paleontology?


Norm MacLeod



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Norman MacLeod
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