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Seeing a kindergarten friend of mine being among the top 10 in ecology and living like a hobbo like his friends and doing spectacular research and not giving up
by SFJulie 10y ago
Seeing a kindergarten friend of mine being among the top 10 in ecology and living like a hobbo like his friends and doing spectacular research and not giving up, I don't think it is money.
I think it is the pressure of company fueled academism in bending the research to censor research that is the real problem.
Corpo and governement are censoring and fighting research by underfunding and noising the environment with shitty science made to make a point.
Don't tell me Science could not detect the diesel gate sooner, yes they could, but government preferred to fund diesel optimistic research.
Don't tell me the thyroid problem happening in every nuclear polluted region could not be detected sooner (Eastern Europa, Japan...) they were. But, it has been silenced by focusing on the cancers.
Don't tell me Fourier books on the contribution of human activity to the global warming of earth (1824) was not written, and thus that this knowledge is "new".
Science, like justice, should be independent from government and economical powers.
Universities should be autonomous.
- madaxe_again 10y agoIt was certainly money that kept me out. Does he have rich, supportive parents, by any chance?
- SFJulie 10y agono, he is ready to live like a hobbo and make a lot of sacrifices most people don't.
- madaxe_again 10y agoIn that case, good for him. I'm likewise prepared to live like a hobo and have done my time being homeless and having a bundle of tags to sleep in to my name - but I had financial dependents which precluded any selfish endeavour. Such is reality for many.
- loup-vaillant 10y ago> Universities should be autonomous. Absolutely. How do you make it so? You secure funds for them. Universities aren't independent when they have to seek funding from various special interests. Similarly, judges are independent because their income doesn't depend on their decisions. That income allows them to refuse "gifts" from either the plaintiff or the defendant.