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On the recordJuly 16, 1997
I would hope that we would stop telling people what they have to wear when they swim and we would not try to repudiate the roundness of the Earth and that we would also refrain from intervening in the selection of individual research projects.
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the role of politics in selecting research subjects for the National Science Foundation.

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