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Yet, politicians like Rand Paul constantly complain about publicly about specific studies that sound like a waste of the public's money

https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1474101150874050561

> Pigeons playing slot machines (NIH) $465,339

even if he's not in charge of it, he still comments on the studies he thinks are a waste of the public's money



But that is just political posturing for the media and his fans. He doesn't actual influence the decisions, and even if he ends up doing so, he's not influencing decisions about large scale physics experiments




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