> It’s no accident that every good paper includes the phrase “more study[1] is needed” ... [1] read: FUNDING Let's distinguish "science" -- the scientific me

> It’s no accident that every good paper includes the phrase “more study[1] is needed” ... [1] read: FUNDING Let's distinguish "science" -- the scientific method, the general advancement of human understanding over the centuries, etc. -- from "pork": institutionalized government funding, the establishment pursuing that, and all of the mundane, bureaucratic processes that ensue, and then the resulting hype, pettiness, recriminations, and sacrificing of ideals that it inculcates. There is nothing wrong with science, although it may be harder these days to recognize it. Pork, on the other hand, is approaching a singularity.