being dismissive of basic research is counter-productive. Would you like to suggest that their methodology or that their conclusions are suspect? Would you pref

being dismissive of basic research is counter-productive. Would you like to suggest that their methodology or that their conclusions are suspect? Would you prefer a large-n tracking study of experiments on humans over many years? Yeah, so would we all, but studies like this are how researchers build up a hypothesis and funding to do larger more powerful studies. This Hacker News meme of being dismissive of research is pointless and should stop. Cynicism and snark don't add to the discussion.