据《自然》杂志报导,美国国会和布什总统为了把联邦预算中出现“浪费”现象的责任推给对方,争先恐后地大砍预算中的科学项目。然而,由于这些议员和政客们对科学并无多少了解,因而他们在判断研究项目的科学价值时采用了一条极为简单的标准:只要看到项目的标题有点“古怪”,便可断定此项目不值得拨款而一刀砍掉。前参议员普罗克斯迈尔发明了这一臭名昭著的所谓“古怪标题法则”并把它沿用了十多年,而现在国会又开 According to the “Nature” magazine, the U.S. Congress and President Bush have scrambled to slash their budget scientific projects in order to push each other's responsibility for “waste” in the federal budget. However, since these parliamentarians and politicians did not know much about science, they adopted an extremely simple standard in judging the scientific value of research projects: as long as the title of the project was a bit weird, it could be concluded that the project was not Worth the money and knives cut off. Former Senator Proctormeir invented the notorious so-called “weird title rule” and took it for more than a decade, and now Congress is back