Forbes
By Henry I. Miller
From 1975 to 1987 Sen. William Proxmire (D-WI) bestowed monthly “Golden
Fleece Awards” to identify what he viewed as wasteful government spending. The
announcements were widely covered by the media at the time.
The first two awards went to the National Science Foundation, which Sen.
Proxmire believed had a peculiar idea of what was worthy of taxpayer dollars.
The first NSF grant, for $84,000, was intended to discover why people fall in
love. The second, for $500,000 (part of which came from two other federal
agencies), was to determine which stimuli cause rats, monkeys and humans to bite
and clench their jaws.
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