Hey I appreciate your comment, but you were doing a fine job! In case it comes up later, here are another couple of resources to defend science funding:
I don’t know why trying to ridicule funny sounding science papers is still such a popular thing to attempt, when the Golden Goose awards exist, and when people who do it have been shown repeatedly for many decades to fail to understand either science or money, yet here we are. Luckily science won’t stop, even with our current administration’s chaos.
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/new-report-shows-nasas-75-...
https://www.sciencecoalition.org/2025/04/29/sparking-america...
https://sciencetechaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/The...
I don’t know why trying to ridicule funny sounding science papers is still such a popular thing to attempt, when the Golden Goose awards exist, and when people who do it have been shown repeatedly for many decades to fail to understand either science or money, yet here we are. Luckily science won’t stop, even with our current administration’s chaos.