Red Meat Friday
This, from the always excellent Daily Caller, is just a perfect red-meat sandwich:
If you think $50,000 doesn’t buy what it used to, think again. For that rough sum, a professor at UCLA has agreed to draw up a report that proves opponents of the Democrats’ health-care bill aren’t motivated by a sense of fiscal responsibility or a general distrust of back-room deals, but by race.
The kicker? Taxpayers are funding the study.
According to the study’s abstract, provided by the National Science Foundation, a government agency under the control of the executive branch: “This research project attempts to provide further evidence for this Obama-induced racialization by pinpointing the extent that health-care opinions are influenced by racial attitudes and determining Obama’s causal role in racializing public opinion about a policy that has no manifest racial content.”
Just wonderful.
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May '10
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Sounds like sociologists to me!
In seriousness, one reason higher education costs rise so fast is that undergrads are asked to subsidize the research of tenured faculty, and the indirectness this funding mechanism entails makes all sorts of things go wrong.
Most students wind up paying wildly inflated tuition, and would be better off if universities were teaching oriented rather than research oriented.
Meanwhile, the outside subsidy for research means there's less scrutiny about what gets researched. Don't get me wrong, I do think there is a place for public funds in some research, but suffice it to say that every type of garden snail in America would have to be exhaustively observed, photographed and tasted before I'd give public funds to studies like the one to which you refer.
May '10
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They better be careful: If they keep this up another few years, the default, reflex response to claims of racism will be eye-rolling. Could be my imagination, but I think I'm already detecting this trend.
May '10
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What a coincidence! I'm putting the finishing touches on a study I've been working on over the last few months that will show, according to the abstract, that "hair-brained 'studies' by leftwing academic crackpots may cause bigotted attitudes about professors in people where no bigotry had been previously detected."