The John Templeton Foundation has been buzzing in the blogosphere recently. Blogged by Jerry Coyne, PZ Myers, and Richard Dawkins.
The newest Jesus and Mo comic chimes in:
Via Pharyngula.
Disclaimer: The Ph.D. stipend, tuition and fees of yours truly was for the first two years or so paid by a Templeton grant to my advisor, Chris Adami. No further ties exist (but I wish they did).
Hilarious, but in all honesty... it is getting so difficult to get research grants these days that I can understand why some take the Templeton money. Not me.... yet... thank God!
ReplyDeleteAs things are right now, I'd take a couple hundred thousand from Templeton. Then they can say they are addressing the "big questions."
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