Bruce Cameron

Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2009.

Readers of this column know that I am highly critical of the government giving away vast sums of money to scientists who conduct studies about unimportant things when the money would be much better spent funding newspaper columnists who write articles about unimportant things.

For example, I think it was a waste of money to spend $1.2 million to study the breeding preferences of the woodchuck. Turns out they mostly prefer to breed with other woodchucks. Shouldn’t we instead have spent the money to determine, once and for all...