[net.followup] Senator William Proxmire and The

andrew@inmet.UUCP (07/26/84)

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inmet!andrew    Jul 25 08:33:00 1984

> There is a darker side to the Golden Fleece awards.
> Proxmire sometimes villifies things that he doesn't understand,
> and projects that really might be decent basic research.

Yes... I recall several years ago where he gave his notorious "award" to
someone who was conducting a study of the sex life of a certain insect.
Apparantly WP is oblivious to the fact that disrupting the breeding cycle
is an important approach to pest control.  I think he got his ass sued off
over that one... at least I hope so!
 
Andrew W. Rogers		...{harpo|ihnp4|ima|esquire}!inmet!andrew

tower@inmet.UUCP (07/27/84)

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inmet!tower    Jul 27 00:48:00 1984

> ***** inmet:net.followup / ut-sally!riddle /  3:25 pm  Jul 23, 1984
> Better be careful about this -- how long before Usenet gets a Golden
> Fleece Award?							 :-)
> 
> --- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
> --- {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddle
> ----------
 
Ah, c'mon, the INTERNET would win one first!

-len tower		UUCP:     {ihnp4,harpo}!inmet!tower
 Cambridge, MA		INTERNET: ima!inmet!tower@CCA-UNIX.ARPA