{"id":1096,"date":"2007-02-06T08:52:38","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T08:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/02\/06\/pound-foolish\/"},"modified":"2007-02-06T08:52:38","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T08:52:38","slug":"pound-foolish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/02\/06\/pound-foolish\/","title":{"rendered":"Pound Foolish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Bush&#8217;s budget request for next year has been released. Surprising approximately no-one who has followed current events over the last seven years, it&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/insidehighered.com\/news\/2007\/02\/06\/scibudget\">mixed bag for science<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>President Bush rolled out a 2008 spending plan Monday that disappointed advocates for scientific research, even as it called for hefty increases for several key programs in the physical sciences aimed at continuing the president&#8217;s drive to double such spending. While they applaud that goal, academic leaders are troubled by the fact that the administration&#8217;s budget plan, if adopted, would result in a reduction in funds for the National Institutes of Health, in relation to the months-late 2007 budget that Congress is on the verge of adopting.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/02\/show_me_the_pony_1.php\">I said a year ago<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[Y]eah, &#8220;double the federal commitment to the most critical basic research programs in the physical sciences over the next 10 years&#8221; sounds great. So does &#8220;If we reverse the polarity on the flux capacitor, we can generate an infinite amount of free energy, and a pony.&#8221; I&#8217;ll believe it when I see the pony.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, it&#8217;s not so much a pony as a pug dog with a saddle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bush&#8217;s budget request for next year has been released. Surprising approximately no-one who has followed current events over the last seven years, it&#8217;s a mixed bag for science: President Bush rolled out a 2008 spending plan Monday that disappointed advocates for scientific research, even as it called for hefty increases for several key programs&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/02\/06\/pound-foolish\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pound Foolish<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,42,28,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in_the_news","category-policy","category-politics","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}