TAE feels bad for doubting President Obama.

Here, I wrote that Mr. Obama hasn't exactly been on a blitzkrieg (outside of the stimulus package) when it comes to science funding.

But alas, TAE was wrong! Obama's budget, released yesterday, includes a massive 5.6% boost in funding for scientific research. This means Obama is proposing an unprecedented 61 billion dollars in funding.

Between Obama's lift on stem cell research, his boosting of science funding, and his obviously brilliant move to cut NASA funding for Moon exploration, I have to believe that even I, your humble author, could not produce smarter science policy. My hat is off to President Obama, and his top science advisor, John Holdren, for their intelligence. In 20 years, when America's science and technology dominance is once again waxing, we will look back and say that the pivot from Bush's backward-looking, Christianist agenda to Obama's open-minded embrace of the future was the start of it all.


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