It just keeps getting weirder and weirder out there. :sick:
Science Magazine goes on to note that Smith also recently sent a letter to NSF director Cora Marrett requesting more information on five specific grants — an action without precedent for a chairman of the House Science committee, particularly one who is personally lacking in scientific expertise. That letter reportedly drew a rebuke by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX), who wrote to Smith warning that interfering with the peer-review process threatens to “undo everything that has enabled NSF to contribute so profoundly to our national health, prosperity, and welfare."
Gee, these Dems are dimwits sometimes. Why does this Johnson guy think Lamar Smith is trying to get his crap passed? To streamline the NSF and make it a better organization? No stupid, to undermine the credibility of the NSF and make it easier for creationists and other Fundie crackpots to get associated with it.