Federal funds are often disbursed to researchers. What is disturbing here is that <i>Economic Stimulus</i> funds were spent on a climate researcher who was already employed. There's no stimulation in this "stimulus".<p>FTA: <i>"It's shocking that taxpayer money is being used to support a researcher who seemingly showed little regard to the basic tenets of science - a dispassionate search for the truth," said Tom Borelli.</i>