Political Science And Mr. Coburn

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Tom Coburn has little, if anything, to do with intelligence.
Tommy....we will throw in the poli sci towel if you give up the faith based angle to education and eliminate theology from all curriculum. This guy makes Inhoaf look like a mere radical.

Coburn Wants To Dump Political Science Funding Since Americans Can Just 'Turn To CNN, Fox News, MSNBC'

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/08/coburn-political-science/


"Part of Coburn's objections seem political, as Henry at Crooked Timber points out. As examples of the way the NSF has wasted its money, Coburn cites a study that found the United States is increasingly willing to torture terrorism suspects and research by Nobel-Prize winning economist Paul Krugman. Today on his blog, Krugman responded to Coburn:

I can't quite remember when I last received NSF support, but it has to be at least 20 years ago — and it was, of course, for work on international trade, work that, you know, won me a Clark Medal and that other prize. So the standard seems to be that if anyone ever supported by the NSF expresses liberal political opinions decades later, that discredits the program.

But much worse is the way Coburn singles out support for the American National Election Studies as a boondoggle. As I said, I'm not a political scientist — but I've done enough data-surveying to know that the ANES is a treasure trove of information that can't be found anywhere else — certainly not, as Coburn suggests, on CNN, Fox, and MSNBC. Of course, it's obvious from what Coburn says that neither he nor anyone on his staff even bothered to look at what the ANES does. "

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Jeebus. I used to think Coburn was the brighter of the two OK senators.

He and Inhofe are obviously in a race to the bottom. A comment like that wouldn't surprise me coming from one of our stupider trolls. But from a US Senator?

Oy."


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