October 17, 2024 – William M. Briggs

NSF to Science: DIE! Science to NSF: Bye!

A committee of the US Senate scanned all the grants doled out by the National Science Foundation over about three years, and discovered (with my emphasis) "3,483 grants, more than…

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Stephen Frick on No Model Will Save Us: Pope Leo, the Miserostat, and AI’s Woke CodersJune 3, 2026
Thank you. This has so many valuable observations.