I smell a rat.

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And not the six-foot kind, either. The nasty political kind.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/24/washington/24evo.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Of all the majors to be accidentally omitted from a list of science majors eligible for a huge financial government grant (US) it had to be evolutionary biology.

Coincidence? If the "mistake" is reversed promptly, I'd accept that under protest.

Thanks dagoski for the link.