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Science funding is “the lowest it has been since the Second World War as a fraction of the federal budget,” said MIT physicist Marc Kastner, who led the committee that wrote “The Future Postponed” report, issued on Monday. “This really threatens America’s future.”

The report lands at a time when federal spending on research has become unusually politicized.

Cuts mandated by the White House’s and Congress’s failure to reach agreement on reducing the federal deficit have chipped away at the budgets of the National Institutes of Health and other science agencies; legislation on research spending is tied up in debates over, among other things, climate change.

Emphasis mine, because too much of a focus on climate change was, however clumsily, what Jonathan Franzen was talking about when he started his beef with the Audubon Society. The feud continues!

Anyway, according to a new report America doesn’t put any money toward research because now all research needs to produce a tangible, marketable product, which is not exactly how research works, but I guess it’s not America’s fault because WE NEED TO LET THE MARKET DECIDE LOL CAPITALISM IS GREAT. BONER PILLS FOR EVERYONE.