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		iopq on Sept 28, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I've said it all before but here we go again 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

bowsamic on Sept 28, 2022 [–]

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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