Sentences with phrase «golden fleece award»

Wasn't that Senator Proxmire's rationale for his Golden Fleece award, awarded 168 times?

Were Senator Proxmire still alive today he would present his famous Golden Fleece award to researchers Dominique Brossard and Dietram A. Scheufele for their very recent astounding discovery that ridicule works.

The Golden Fleece Award was a democratic tradition I highly approved of.

Basically, how would you reconcile the «Golden Fleece Award» mindset with fostering a new American age of inquiry and experimentation?

You mentioned the Golden Fleece Award invented by Senator Proxmire.

There was a time when such a program might have won a «Golden Fleece Award» for wasteful spending.

National Science Foundation grants frequently fit the bill, and many of them were ridiculed with Proxmire's Golden Fleece award.

was issuing the Golden Fleece Award to target wasteful federal spending and often targeted peer - reviewed science because it sounded odd.

Rep. Cooper first had the idea for the Golden Goose Award when the late Senator William Proxmire (D - WI) was issuing the Golden Fleece Award to target wasteful federal spending and often targeted peer - reviewed science because it sounded odd.

Not exact matches

Paul poked fun at several grants funded by NSF — a time - honored practice going back at least 40 years, to Senator William Proxmire (D — WI) and his «Golden Fleece» awards — and complained that the problem is not «how does this happen, but why does it continue to happen?»