By Johna Till Johnson, Network World, 07/11/05

As Mark Twain famously said, there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics. Want proof? Check out the federal appropriations bill for funding the National Science Foundation in 2006. The administration proudly boasts a roughly 2% increase in NSF funding, which rises by $128 million to $5.6 billion (see the NSF budget).