In the July 11 issue of C&E News, there is an article entitled, "Promoting Global Science". It says that a new partnership between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the US Agency for International Development will allow scientists from developing countries to apply and compete for support of research projects involving NSF funded US colleagues. NSF will fund the Us component of these projects, while USAID will foot the bill for international researchers.
It means that US taxpayers will be footing the bill for "promotion of global science" by paying foreign researchers, through USAID. This is a ridiculous project in these special times deficit government financing. We have previously used us taxpayer funds to promote research projects for US university scientists, which in itself is ridiculous. This new operation exacerbates the ridiculousness of this situation.
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