National Science Foundation vs John N. Warfield

Correspondence between Warfield and various public officials regarding the National Science Foundation request for researchers to examine complexity. Included are letters to/from U.S. Senator Richard Shelby, GMU Prof. & Dean Jonathan Gifford, NSF Asst Director David Lightfoot, NSF Director Arden Bement, NSF staff members, Shelby's office staff members.

A digitized copy of all documents was placed on CD and shipped along with hard copy of all documents, to Fenwick Library on 10 March 2009. This material is not listed in the SC&A Finding Aid, but possibly is in the Misc Electronic Storage items in box 101. The complete collection of emails and letters was scanned by Rose and is on home computer. This correspondence is chiefly a collection of email messages, but includes two original letters from government figures. 1) Richard Shelby of U.S. Senator from Alabama writes to Warfield 27 January 2009 promising an investigation into Warfield's assertion that NSF (National Science Foundation) is planning to spend millions of dollars on unneeded academic research, and 2) David Lightfoot an Assistant Director at National Science Foundation tries to provide closure when he writes to Warfield 12 February 2009. The email exchange began as Warfield responded to a NSF proposal request asking researchers to examine complexity. Warfield challenges the need for any "complexity" study and asked his U.S. Senator to investigate. NSF dropped the word "complexity" from a subsequent proposal request, which otherwise was strangely similar to the first one. Millions will still be awarded to researchers, in what is apparently a program designed to support global warming enthusiasts. Warfield is given a polite brush off in a letter from Lightfoot. Warfield suggests that NSF further examine and use his own research, in final letters to Lightfoot and to Bement.




Additional Info

  • Category: Complexity, Correspondence and Communications
  • Description: Booklet of printed transparencies
  • Publication Year: 2009
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