> Train lots and lots of physicists, chemists, engineers, programmers, materials scientists, biologists, mathematicians. [...] Employ them on promising ideas, a

> Train lots and lots of physicists, chemists, engineers, programmers, materials scientists, biologists, mathematicians. [...] Employ them on promising ideas, and on impossible ideas. The scientifically minded are not the ones who will be deciding what's worthy of research. Politicians and bureaucrats will, and there are plenty of them who believe in all kinds of pseudo-scientific nonsense. How does your system prevent them from shoveling tax dollars into research on homeopathy and young-Earth creationism? And how does it prevent them from using funding to incentivize scientists to find the "correct" results? To phrase my question more generally: I would like to know how your system would avoid making science merely a tool of political interests instead of a tool of moneyed interests.