[Interesting Times]

A bit of intellectual honesty for a change. I expect he will be drawn and quartered by the true believers for his heritical statement.

The guy's 92. What are they going to do; revoke his grant?

[GreyFriar]

Actually this shows the truth of President Eisenhower’s warning against the development of a governmental-academic complex where in universities and academic begin to feed off of government grants to fund their research projects. And the government fostering academics to apply for grants for government instituted ideas.

This warning was in the same speech as his often quoted military-industrial complex.