So some comments to a tweet are written by idiots. News at 11.
And someone who I presume is not an idiot wrote here "that research, evidently, was funded by the National Science Foundation to the tune of $460,000". Which is, y'know, not true unless you take "this research" in an outrageously broad sense.
I suspect that in practice [...]
Me too. Which, again, does not mean that the NSF spent $460k on feminist glaciology research.
Which is, y'know, not true unless you take "this research" in an outrageously broad sense.
But I do. Given this paper which many people suspected to be Sokal-style satire (it's not), I very much doubt the quality of research put out by the recipient of the grant, Mark Carey.
does not mean that the NSF spent $460k on feminist glaciology research
Why did the NSF spend any money on feminist glaciology research?
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