{"id":1917,"date":"2008-04-17T13:57:22","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T20:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2008-04-17T13:57:22","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T20:57:22","slug":"bowling-and-taking-shots-for-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/04\/17\/bowling-and-taking-shots-for-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowling and Taking Shots for Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Baltimore and Ahmed Zewail, both Nobel dudes, have an op-ed<\/a> in the Wall Street Journal about the presidential candidates choosing not to participate in a debate over science and technology policy:<\/p>\n

All three candidates declined. Apparently the top contenders for our nation’s highest elective office have better things to do than explain to the public their views on securing America’s future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course they have better things to do: bowling and taking shots and being under phantom sniper fire! Don’t these Nobel prize winners read Fafblog<\/a>? Without bowling and shots, where will America’s competitiveness go? I say good science policy begins with a high bowling score and a few shots, don’t you agree?
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\nOh, and what the heck is up with the NIH?<\/p>\n

At the National Institutes of Health, the average age of a first grant is 42 for a Ph.D. and 44 for an M.D.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seriously if they funded mathematicians, we’d have no new theorems at all (yes I exaggerate \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Baltimore and Ahmed Zewail, both Nobel dudes, have an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about the presidential candidates choosing not to participate in a debate over science and technology policy: All three candidates declined. Apparently the top contenders for our nation’s highest elective office have better things to do than explain to the … <\/p>\n

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