Comments on: Political Science and the NSF http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/2012/06/25/political-science-and-the-nsf/ A First Things Blog Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:57:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Brian http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/2012/06/25/political-science-and-the-nsf/comment-page-1/#comment-20203 Brian Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:46:49 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/?p=7553#comment-20203 Per Ike’s farewell address, the NSF and other similar agencies should be massively scaled back for ALL disciplines, physical science included. It’d be to the benefit of both government and to the scientific community.

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And here’s begging someone like our James Ceaser, or another sane political scientist who knows one of the key fields, to provide a tag-along essay, with lesser-known examples of predictive failure, or at least, of underwhelming results.

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