[bstreep]

[quote=Bash;299109Parenthetically, it's nearly impossible to get NSF funding unless and until a preliminary study has been published.[/quote]

And THIS is the reason I left academia. It's ALWAYS, all about the money. All he's trying to do, is to get some TAXPAYER money (NSF - I went to graduate school for a PhD courtesy of an NSF grant) - to do a BS study on something he and every other scientists worth a dang already knows, doesn't generate more energy than is expended.

What a total freakin' waste of taxpayer money. If this guy gets a grant of taxpayer money, he should be thrown in jail for fraud.