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I think you're trying to paint me as someone who is anti-science, I'm the opposite. I have extreme confidence in what our scientists can do, especially when you
by mjfl 9y ago
I think you're trying to paint me as someone who is anti-science, I'm the opposite. I have extreme confidence in what our scientists can do, especially when you stop giving them easy money. Note that CERN also employs thousands of very smart particle physics PHDs who's median contribution to humanity is roughly equivalent to a giant land sloth's. I want to demand much more from them, and I'm also extremely confident that they can deliver.
- icebraining 9y agoNo, I'm painting you as someone who has way too much faith in their own abilities to predict what can be achieved by pure research. You can only demand more if you're certain that more is achievable. I don't see what evidence you have that allows you to conclude that.
- Al-Khwarizmi 9y ago"I have extreme confidence in what our scientists can do, especially when you stop giving them easy money" Yeah, as a scientist there's nothing like underfunding when it comes to doing great things! Having to reduce the team letting people go, work with obsolete/scarce equipment, and spend the majority of the time writing grant proposals to beg for some money to move forward, are great boosts indeed. And surely the great advances of science have not been associated to large labs with huge resources, often related to the deep pockets of the military...