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I could argue the same about physicists not working on FTL. Or medical research on non-life threatening diseases. It's a bit unfair.
by lallysingh 8y ago
I could argue the same about physicists not working on FTL. Or medical research on non-life threatening diseases. It's a bit unfair.
- wpietri 8y agoMedical research on non-life-threatening things is still creating value for people with less-than-fatal problems. Physicists working on physics research might be a problem if those physicists could just divert money elsewhere in the economy into their own research programs. As it is, there's a complex system of controls so that public research money is generally used for some reasonably good purpose.