From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:05:05 -0500 Au contraire, if political scientists were really good at doing politics, then they would easily have prevented Congress from taking this action, as this article from InsideHigherEd suggests: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/03/25/senate-vote-prompts-discussion-among-political-scientists-about-their-political. Sandy Thatcher > From: Ari Belenkiy <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:19:19 -0700 > > "Political science" is not a science but politics. Perhaps good that > it is not to be funded anymore by NSF. > > Ari Belenkiy > > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 8:50 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]> >> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:17:33 -0500 >> >> You may have heard that the Senate has just passed legislation, likely >> to be passed by the House also, that removes most funding of political >> science research by the NSF. In this case, austerity was used as an >> excuse to do something that Republicans have long wanted to do for >> political reasons anyway. >> >> Sandy Thatcher