Petty Politics Sabotages Science. Details at 11.

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Now lets get pi equal to 3.2 like God and Indiana intended.

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never became law due to the intervention of C. A. Waldo, a professor at Purdue University, who happened to be present in the legislature on the day it went up for a vote.

Ah, the good (not really, but bear with me) old days where even the crazies would listen to experts…

Also, this is brilliant:

the Speaker accepted another member’s recommendation to refer the bill to the Committee on Swamplands, where the bill could “find a deserved grave”

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“Imaginary numbers”? Sounds like that DC fuzzy math . . .

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The motives and politics are absolutely petty. The results are an ongoing nightmare.

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System works as designed.

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“The purpose of a system is what it does.”

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Everything is going according to plan.

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