i believe astronomy is not underfunded, with projects like JWT. now she might be right about medium scale projects but one would have to see the budget for it.

i believe astronomy is not underfunded, with projects like JWT. now she might be right about medium scale projects but one would have to see the budget for it. Research directions is a difficult matter, and as evidenced by recently identified problems with medicine and biology reserach, having a ton of medium-sized projects instead of a few megaprojects is not necessarily more fruitful.