Throwback Thursday: NSF Studies Spanish Bullfighting

In 1987, the National Science Foundation spent $9,992 – more than $25,000 in 2022 dollars – to study bullfighting in Spain for a year.

Sen. William Proxmire, a Democrat from Wisconsin, gave the NSF his Golden Fleece Award for this ridiculous study, “Bullfights and Ideology of the Nation in Spain.”