The Wired blog proposes the following, Vote for the Biggest Problems with Scientific Research Funding

Some of the current leading problems: Defense Contractors Get More Tax Dollars than Medical Researchers, Keep the masses uneducated = some Republicans don’t believe in evolution, The Science of Global Warming, No Federal Funding for Embryonic Stem Cell Research. Those may or may not serious problems but they do seem to show a tendency for certain constituencies to be vocal online.

I don’t think this voting is actually very insightful. But it is at least raising two issues I have been raising a bit more lately: science funding (our newest category) and politics and science (Science and Engineering in Politics - Politics and Science Research).