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To: James Seagrove who wrote (991355)	1/2/2017 12:49:57 PM
From: Land Shark	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574033

Fake news again. You pinheads are serial liars.

To: James Seagrove who wrote (991355)	1/2/2017 1:17:24 PM
From: Stock Puppy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574033

Interesting parody - after all, AAAS publishes the journal "Science". AAAS is unusual among the "hard" scientific organizations in that it is very political and partisan. This is an interesting article, for both sides from an opinion piece in Nature journal. nature.com Nature516,9(04 December 2014)doi:10.1038/516009a To get you interested:` ... But is it smart for the AAAS to link itself explicitly to the partisan fray? The generally accepted metric of how well national science is doing is the level of government funding, and by that measure Republicans have, on the whole, supported science as much Democrats have in the past 50 years. The problem today is not that Republicans particularly want to limit science spending. It is that in their obsession with fiscal restraint they are willing to cut all spending, including in areas they have historically favoured, such as military programmes — and basic science. ...