Talk:Golden Fleece Award

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This article needs some specifics, rather than merely mentioning the names of the purportedly offending agencies. --Thatnewguy 13:32, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

I totally agree. This article might as well read "abbreviated list of government agencies that stir controversy." It is useless without more information. --Jhlynes 21:23, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

I stumbled across this article and began filling in the details, before I realized just how many awards have been given. Many agencies have won multiple awards, the existing list of agencies in the article is far from complete, and a number of these have substantial counterarguments. A complete, verbose list of awards would make this article longer than Longcat. Picking out a single specific award for the existing list would, in the current state, misrepresent the wide range of awards given. The right thing to do here evades me, so I'll let someone else decide. As for the "teaching college students how to watch television", a future editor may find this counterargument [1] noteworthy. ~ Eidako 15:26, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Libel Lawsuit

No article on the Golden Fleece Award can be complete without mentioning Hutchinson v. Proxmire, 443 U.S. 111, 99 S. Ct. 2675, 61 L. Ed. 2d 411 (1979). A scientist who had received a research award was given the Golden Fleece Award in a press release from Senator Proxmire's office, and he sued Proxmire for libel. Proxmire's defense that the scientist was a public figure was rejected by the court. Vegasprof 14:02, 9 November 2007 (UTC)