Senator Tom Coburn knows how to rankle political scientists. Float a bill claiming all their work is bunk and should receive no government funding. For those who want to read it, here's Coburn's explanation. This is stirring up some ire and concern among political scientists in the blogosphere. Some of my colleagues even feel "picked on." Well look. 1) To be fair, he's not really saying our work is bunk. Just that it's not "science." He doesn't give a definition of what he thinks science is, but apparently it's something like pornography: he knows it when he sees it: "...biology, chemistry,...