Trumps pick for the Office of Management and Budget questions why the government funds science

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http://www.popsci.com/trumps-pick-for-office-managment-and-budget-questioned-why-government-funds-research?con=TrueAnthem&dom=tw&src=SOC&utm_campaign=&utm_content=585c4ce4b8a9fe0007c5d800&utm_medium=&utm_source=

In a now cached Facebook post from September, when a debate was raging in Congress as to whether or not we should fund research into Zika Mulvaney writes:

“I have received all sorts of emails and FB comments this week on Zika. Some people want me to pass a "clean" bill (which I suppose means not paying for it with spending reductions elsewhere). Other folks want us to fund more research if we can find a way to pay for it.

No one has written me yet, though, to ask what might be the best question: do we really need government-funded research at all.”

He goes on to suggest that because a preliminary study found no wave of birth defects linked to Zika infections in Columbia, government funded research into Zika and its link to birth defects might not be necessary.


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The best part is that he posted this comment on the INTERNET. You know, that thing invented by government research.

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1. Oh, come on now.

You and I and everyone else knows full well that the Internet wasn't built by teh gubmint, because it's just a series of Tubes. Any idiot could have put it together so stop trying to spread Fake News.