Public Health Science Shrimp on treadmills, laundry-folding robots, and the problem of ridiculing research
August 25, 2011 Liz Borkowski, MPH 23Comment

I felt a sense of déjà vu Tuesday morning when I heard NPR’s Nell Greenfieldboyce reporting on Senator Tom Coburn’s attacks on National Science Foundation-funded research. I realized that the same thing happened last August, and I wrote about it in a post called “Scoring Political Points by Misunderstanding Science.” Last year, the report mocked […]

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Public Health Science Scoring Political Points by Misunderstanding Science
August 10, 2010 Liz Borkowski, MPH 12Comment

Senators John McCain and Tom Coburn have released a report on “100 Stimulus Projects that Give Taxpayers the Blues.” Their introduction rails against “torrential, misdirected government spending,” and short descriptions of the 100 projects singled out for ridicule are evidently supposed to disgust readers. What disgusted me, though, was an apparent lack of respect for […]

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