Intro: This is a long post, and it just keeps getting longer although I keep removing curse words. If you only have time for some of it, see Part Two and Part Six. It's become apparent that the Trump Administration is trying to make major changes to the way that the scientific funding agencies of the US government operate. That's about as neutrally as I can put it: my own opinion is that said changes (as they appear at the moment) are an outrage, a vindictive ideological assault on agencies that...