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It can be true and you can still be outraged, because that justification is probably just an excuse to can projects that the current government doesn't like.
by eridius 9y ago
It can be true and you can still be outraged, because that justification is probably just an excuse to can projects that the current government doesn't like.
- WalterBright 9y ago> can projects that the current government doesn't like. All administrations do that.
- eridius 9y agoMost administrations aren't so destructively anti-science as this one.
- mirimir 9y agoReagan was pretty bad.
- tstactplsignore 9y agoReally? Can you show me a legitimate scientific project that the Obama administration shut down?
- no_protocol 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation_program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation_program
- uabstraction 9y agoMaybe we didn't have the cash sitting around to build up the ISS in the immediate aftermath of the worst financial crisis since the great depression.
- WalterBright 9y agoAs I recall, one couldn't (and still can't) get funding for research into medicinal uses of drugs like marijuana and heroin. Politics always drives what gets government research funding and what doesn't. Politics defines what is "legitimate" and what isn't, and those shift over time.
- lsaferite 9y ago> shut down You're citing research that was never started.