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> As someone who vehemently advocates basic research > The related problems have been getting worse, not better, since this research was done The most pertine
by smallnamespace 10y ago
> As someone who vehemently advocates basic research
> The related problems have been getting worse, not better, since this research was done
The most pertinent definition of 'basic' research is that there is no immediate payoff to the research that you can foresee -- otherwise, it would be applied research.
- nonbel 10y agoYes, but the premise of this article is that it describes a situation in which that payoff is visible. I don't see any visible payoff at that link. If I tried to use it to argue for basic research, I would expect skeptics to propose the possibility that applying the "lessons learned" has lead to more problems. It says that for "some unknown reason" things are getting worse after applying those lessons...