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URGENT: Stop Coburn Amendment to End NSF Program for Political Science

by Drew Conway

7 October 2009, 2203 EDT

Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has proposed an amendment to the Senate Commerce, Justice, Science appropriations bill, which will end the National Science Foundation’s program for political science.

I have set up an online petition to rally opposition to this amendment, and I ask any and all readers to sign it, and pass it on to anyone and everyone. I also encourage everyone to call their senators and ask them to stop amendment 2631 to H.R. 2847.

https://www.petition2congress.com/2/2508/keep-nsf-political-science-program/

UPDATE: The petition has generated over 2,000 letters to Congress in less than 24 hours!

Drew Conway, CEO and founder of Alluvium, is a leading expert in the application of computational methods to social and behavioral problems at large-scale. Drew has been writing and speaking about the role of data — and the discipline of data science — in industry, government, and academia for several years.

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