Leo Szilard’s short story The Mark Gable Foundation is a classic. The satire of how-to-retard-science will be familiar to anyone whose work relies on research grants. If you can find a copy of his collection Voice of the Dolphins, get it. The typed manuscript is among his papers available online from #UCSD libraries: https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb33804055

Came up in conversation the other day, so posting it here for anyone who might be interested.
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