10/17/2017
https://www.congress.gov...
"I remember as a kid in the 1970s seeing Senator William Proxmire describe waste such as this as he gave his Golden Fleece Awards, and here we are 40 years later still with the same kind of questions."
"That is absurd."
"I am concerned that the government system of supporting research is inefficient and often incentivizes the wrong things, which leads to bad science and wasted taxpayer dollars."
"It does not sound very objective."