Re: Politics by another means? (from L. Bowlds)

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Date:          01-Aug-95 09:25:44 +0100
From:          N @ CSN{N.MacLeod@nhm.ac.uk}  (N. MacLeod)
Subject:       Politics by another means?

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

Norm

The problem, in a nutshell, is that too many of our fossils are
running around loose in the halls of Congress. If this phenomenon
were confined to bodies hardened by age, it wouldn't be so bad. The
real problems are those arising from minds, attitudes, and prejudices
that have become hardened over the years. Fortunately, the full House
of Representatives and one-third of the Senate must be elected every
two years. Maybe we'll be able to retire a few of these ya-hoos in
1996. :-)

Larry
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