I usually don’t get preachy on this blog. However, there have been two events in the science world that have made me really angry, and I want to do something about it.   The first is this: The National Science Foundation (NSF) is the United States government’s premier science organization. Until the sequester, they provided a huge amount of funding for scientific research in every field. Project proposals are subjected to peer review and either funded or rejected based on their scientific merit. The benefit that the United States, both as a political entity and as a society, has