National Science Foundation

Taxpayers Spent $225k For a Company To Make a Cooking App For Kids

Do you like cooking? Do you like science? Are you an American taxpayer who doesn’t give a flying flip where your tax dollars go?

Taxpayers Just Spent $300k To Rearrange the Furniture In College Classrooms

I genuinely, with all my heart wish I were kidding about this. But I'm not. Taxpayers – i.e., you and I, assuming you also have a steady job through which you also fork boo-koos of cash...

Bye-Bye, Oregon Trail: Feds Spend $1.5M On High-Tech Video Games

Long gone are the days of The Oregon Trail, the awesomely glitchy computer game sixth-graders used to enjoy by the light of their 1992 Macintosh processor – that is, until all your oxen drowned and...

The Feds Just Spent $600k to Study Fish Faces

The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution states that the role of the federal government is to “form a more perfect union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defence,...

Feds Spend Millions on Why Kids Don't Like Sneezed-On Food - and More, in 'The Federal Fumbles'

It’s gift-giving time, that time when people of various religious faiths think about buying something entertaining, meaningful or both for their friends and loved ones. So, in the spirit of the “season,”...

Nearly Half a Million Taken from Taxpayers for Bizarre, Silly Feminization of Glacier Science

The government has to work very hard to protect us from ourselves, and one of the most important areas where we troglodytes just don’t get it is the “settled science” that industrial...

$520K Federal Grant Claims ADHD Is Just ‘Cognitive Diversity’

The National Science Foundation forked over more than half a million in taxpayer dollars to the University of Connecticut to get "neurodiverse" students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity...

Shocked Scientists Say Climate Change Isn't Causing a Sea Algae Crisis

According to the National Science Foundation, an analysis of how global warming and rising sea temperatures affects tiny oceanic organisms showed alleged man-made gloabl warming isn't creating the...

Gov. Spends $178k to Study Post-Terrorism Tweets

Ever wonder what it’d cost to study how people tweet after terrorist attacks? Neither did any other sane person on the planet. But the federal government did – and it cost about $178k. The...

Feds Pay $450K to Study if A/C Helps With Heat

Congratulations, American taxpayer! You’ve just doled out $450,000 to Arizona State University so researchers can study whether people get hot when it’s hot outside, and if turning on the A/C...

Feds Spend $250K To Learn If People Use the A/C When It's Hot

In the midst of an ever-climbing $19.3 trillion debt and an economy growing at the pace of frozen molasses running up a hill, the federal government just shelled out $250,000 to study whether people...

NSF: Is Vision a Social Construct?

The National Science Foundation is funding a fellowship to figure out whether collectivism makes people literally see things differently. The fellowship, jointly funded by the NSF and the Japan Society...

Feds Spend $1.4 Million to Sell Ice to Eskimos

The federal government is spending over $1 million to hopefully increase the diversity of Arctic researchers. The National Science Foundation gave $1.4 million to the Woods Hole Research Center to help...

Feds Award $270K To Find Out if Girls Suck at STEM

The federal government is doling out nearly $300,000 to study whether the best and brightest women working in STEM fields are inferior to their male counterparts. The findings will be apparently used to...

Feds Spent $39K Studying Syrian Refugees...in Iceland

The federal government just doled out nearly $39,000 in American taxpayer money to the San Jose State University Foundation to study the resettlement process for Syrian refugees in Iceland. No, really....

Feds Cough Up $35K to Study Illegal Alien 'Refugees'

What do the National Science Foundation and illegal immigration have in common? American tax dollars. If it’s not bad enough that the federal government is spending gobs of taxpayer cash on infrastructure...

NSF Awards $50K to Help Female Engineering Profs Meet Each Other

The National Science Foundation has awarded about $50,000 to the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities to host a networking workshop for female engineering faculty to interact with each other....

Feds Give Scientists Another $863K to Develop Robot Nurses

  Meet George Jetson? The federal government just gave nearly $900,000 to the University of Louisville to develop robot nurses, that could be coming soon to a hospital near you. We’re not talking...

Feds Shell Out $1.5M To Combat ‘Misconceptions’ About Evolution in Elem. Students

If you want to raise your child with a faith-based worldview and need further proof that the federal government is in the business of indoctrinating your kids regardless, look no further. The federal...