Right, the article doesn't argue for fusion funding.
But elsewhere the author has advocated it with "fusion power is a goal worth spending billions on". And in his "Why Particle Colliders Will Go Extinct" article, he supports the billions spent on fusion.
The author's other writings include:
- Gun Ownership Neither Increases Nor Decreases the Crime Rate
It says to stop putting everything (or rather, a ridiculous amount of money) into high energy particle physics and start funding other experiments.