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That ultimately is their choice - using money as a forcing function to get the research we want is a poor approach to picking fruitful areas of research (althou
by lifeisstillgood 6y ago
That ultimately is their choice - using money as a forcing function to get the research we want is a poor approach to picking fruitful areas of research (although not uncommon)
- kortilla 6y agoSure, but the point of government funding is to encourage things we want for society. If some researcher wants to pour another 20 years of salary into more string theory, maybe we shouldn’t pay for that. Perhaps rather than prescribing areas of research, we should just ban or severely limit areas that haven’t shown any promise.