Tom Coburn Amendment Limiting National Science Foundation Research Funding Passes Senate
NSF funding for such research has long been a target of Coburn’s. The Republican offered a similar amendment in 2009, and in 2011 released an oversight report on the NSF’s “mismanagement and misplaced priorities.” The passage of Coburn’s amendment was met with backlash from members of the academic community, including the American Political Science Association… “The amendment creates an exceptionally dangerous slippery slope. While political science research is most immediately affected, at risk is any and all research in any and all disciplines funded by the NSF. The amendment makes all scientific research vulnerable to the whims of political pressure.”
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by Mollie Reilly, The Huffington Post.