Some scientists' fears may be coming true. The National Science Foundation (NSF), which is one of the primary sources of funding for science research in the US, has canceled its annual August call for political science grant proposals in what many suspect is a direct result of Congressional legislation limiting the types of research the agency can support. Henry Farrell, a George Washington University political scientist told Nature that the move "is somewhere between devastating and crippling."
On its website, the NSF says "uncertainty" over its budget for fiscal 2014 is behind the decision to not accept any new political science grant proposals this August. Scientists and experts alike think politics is the main culprit, however. A...
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