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Real issue is that the way science is funded is broken.

• varjag 10y ago
  Broken assumes it was working well at some point. Nothing new here.
  • mathgeek 10y ago
    It worked pretty well back when scientific inquiry was funded by selling inventions or other work that the scientist did "as a day job." That was a long time ago, though.
    • varjag 10y ago
      This has worked and still works for technology, but is not how basic science research was done. There's never been "enough" money for sciences, nor they ever been allocated in a manner agreeable to all parties. For a long time, research was either a gentleman's hobby or a side project under auspices of unsuspecting donor. Lagrange has developed variational calculus while doing his artillery school tenure. Einstein's annus mirabilis happened at his stint in Swiss patent office.