Citations:boondoggle


 * 2020, Kate Knibbs, Spaceship Earth and the Value of Utopian Thinking, Wired (12 May 2020);
 * Many scientists dismissed the project as little more than a pricey stunt, and its own expert advisory board quit within the first year in protest of its lack of rigor. By 1996, it was parody fodder, a heavily-criticized punch line. The word “boondoggle” got thrown around. So did “folly.” Time magazine named it one of the worst ideas of the 20th century.