The Initiative, a 10-year plan to provide greater work-related flexibility to women and men in research careers, is run by the National Science Foundation (NSF), which is the leading source of Federal grants for many fields that are crucial to US technology development and job creation, including computer science, mathematics, and the social sciences.
In April, the Skolkovo Foundation, chaired by Vekselberg, announced that it was collaborating with MIT on the creation of a new scienceand technology graduate university outside Moscow called SK Tech.
The successful completion of the exercise, or even an attempt and failure, has repeatedly demonstrated, in part, why it is that young-earth creation-science promoters have failed in their scientific pretensions and legal challenges without having to resort to fussing over technical, scientific details that few are qualified to address or engaging in Mahoney-level rhetoric.