I will avoid the cliche about how sites like HN have one opinion.<p>But I do find myself wondering how many people here frothing at the mouth have, in other contexts, sung the praise of heavy government funding of science research. Or how many sing praises of government oversight.<p>This is it. This is government funding in science research, and government oversight. The oversight committee has the right to perform oversight. In any healthy country, eventually, politicians you don&#x27;t like will be in charge of the oversight levers, as naturally as day follows night. (Unless you live under eternal single-party control, in which case you&#x27;ve got bigger problems than science oversight committees.)<p>There&#x27;s no world where the government funds science research but just ships out the dollars with no regard for what happens afterwards.