I care for kids, families, the sick and the elderly, working class, middle class, and every American. To end poverty and advance the American Dream, I am Libertarian Girl.
If it’s true that Dr. Bruce Ivins, a biodefense researcher at the Army’s Medical Research Center on Infectious Diseases in Frederick, Maryland, orchestrated the 2001 anthrax attacks to further his own career and funnel more federal funding toward the study of his speciality, anthrax– and to himself– it perfectly illustrates what I have previously said [...]
This is the conclusion of my two-part series discussing why science would be better if it left government funding behind. In the first post, I discussed why government should not be given control of scientists’ work, what government have done when they did have this control, what they will continue to do, and how [...]
“The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by federal government project allocation, and the power of money, is ever present, and is gravely to be regarded.” — President Dwight D. Eisenhower
The government should stay out of science completely. Science, scientists, taxpayers, and the world would be better off for it. Research scientists are usually [...]
Since 1906, the United States Department of Agriculture has employed more than 60 “tick riders,” federal workers who patrol the Texas-Mexico border on horseback and inspect cattle and livestock herds for signs of Mexican livestock and the resultant infestations of the “fever tick.”
Apparently the fever tick is a really bad thing that we don’t want [...]
I haven’t yet focused much on science in this blog, but I’d like to begin discussing it more. Science is an endlessly fascinating topic for discussion.
On Saturday, I attended the 2008 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference at the Sigma Xi headquarters. I met some cool people, attended some sessions on blogging, and had a great [...]