Real Science
It has been nearly five years since President Obama killed the space
program. so that the formerly great agency could focus on junk science
and CO2 based superstition."
ED: from the comments:
Yes, he did. With a stroke of his pen,
Obama flushed the $10+ billion that taxpayers had invested in
Constellation to that point. His alternative plan was to let startup
space tech companies start over from scratch and propose a better
rocket. My father in law was an executive at an aerospace manufacturer
at the time, and I asked what he thought about it. He explained that
all the other designs that were kicking around had already been
evaluated and Constellation was the best around. There was absolutely
no rational excuse for flushing that investment.
My father in law said that they see this occasionally during a change
of administration. The new guy doesn’t want to carry through the old
guy’s project and give him the “credit”, so they flush the old projects
and start something the new guy can claim credit for. Obama showed this
behavior quite clearly when he announced his “Brain Map” project (with
ZERO new revenue earmarked to pay for it).
This kind of egotistical behavior is very harmful to science. Even
if the Brain Map is a good idea, Obama doesn’t deserve credit for it.
And stamping Obama’s name onto the project then not bringing any new
money to the table only ensures that other deserving science goes
unfunded.
Obama has been the most anti-science president in US history."
My father in law said that they see this occasionally during a change of administration. The new guy doesn’t want to carry through the old guy’s project and give him the “credit”, so they flush the old projects and start something the new guy can claim credit for. Obama showed this behavior quite clearly when he announced his “Brain Map” project (with ZERO new revenue earmarked to pay for it).
This kind of egotistical behavior is very harmful to science. Even if the Brain Map is a good idea, Obama doesn’t deserve credit for it. And stamping Obama’s name onto the project then not bringing any new money to the table only ensures that other deserving science goes unfunded.
Obama has been the most anti-science president in US history."