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- From: ethan@ut-emx.uucp (Ethan Tecumseh Vishniac)
- Newsgroups: sci.research
- Subject: Re: Repost of The '92 Election
- Summary: This isn't true for NSF
- Message-ID: <76330@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 21:30:56 GMT
- References: <14JUL92.16450239@wums.wustl.edu> <75986@ut-emx.uucp> <1992Jul20.232904.24101@anat.UMSMED.EDU>
- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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- In article <1992Jul20.232904.24101@anat.UMSMED.EDU>, tpm@anat.UMSMED.EDU (Terence P. Ma) writes:
- > I wrote:
- > I do not believe that [the current administration] deserves criticism for the
- > >overall level of funding of science in the US.
- >
- > I *strongly* disagree. The current administration has not
- > adequately increased the science budget, especially in biomedical
- > sciences and the non-big-ticket areas of the NSF budget, at all.
- > Typically, the actual dollars (purchasing power) are smaller. It is
- > Congress that we have to thank for the minimal increases that
- > biomedical sciences have received.
-
- Your comments certainly do not apply to NSF. The administration has
- consistently been supporting large increases in the NSF budget (this
- year, for example, they suggested 18 per cent). These increases have not
- fared well in congress. I don't know all the ins and outs of NIH funding,
- but I am under the impression that the administration has supported somewhat
- smaller increases there and congress has habitually allotted more than
- requested. In the current economic climate this is not going to continue,
- regardless of who is elected.
-
- Folks, I believe that there are good reasons to dump Bush, but it is
- unrealistic to expect that this will lead to increased funding for
- the sciences. It might even have the opposite effect.
- --
- "Quis tamen tale studium, quo ad primam omnium rerum causam evehimur,
- tamquam inutile aut contemnendum detractare ac deprimere ausit?"-Bridel
- Ethan T. Vishniac, Dept. of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin
- Austin, Texas, 78712 ethan@astro.as.utexas.edu
-