Your link seems unrelated to the topic of this article? I gave the line items for the research conducted in the OP.

A good faith reading of your comment leads me to guess you might take issue with a small number of unrelated NSF CAREER awards going to research you don’t find worthwhile (such as those alluded to in your link). But the vast majority of CAREER awards fund what I would imagine you would consider “real science” [1], like the content of OP.

So please do not tune out!

[1] You can count them here in the list of all CAREER awards: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/advancedSearchResult?PIId=&P...