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A battle over science is under way in the halls of the Capitol, with some in Congress calling for more say in which research projects receive federal dollars.Political science studies funded this year must show their results will benefit U.S. economic or security interests, and another proposal imposes similar new criteria on other scientific studies.In response, critics have charged lawmakers with intruding into the National Science Foundations approval process.Every scientific discipline has a stake in undoing the damage inflicted on political science , and, in fact, to the national interest, by the new criteria, writes Kenneth Prewitt of Columbia University, in a commentary published May 3 in the journal Science. Every scientist should vigorously contest any effort to apply those criteria more broadly.Congress and science The new rule for political science comes from legislation passed in March, which denies the National Science Foundation (NSF) the ability to fund political science...
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