> Just to establish a base line.. can you give any example of a specific kind of academic research that would qualify as a waste of resources? I don't have an

> Just to establish a base line.. can you give any example of a specific kind of academic research that would qualify as a waste of resources? I don't have an example off the top of my head. This isn't an issue that I track or have a particular concern with. > But with that attitude how do you even want to establish the boundaries or the agenda of what we ought to research? I would generally leave those judgments to the academic community, who I don't consider infallible by any means but do consider significantly less fallible in their judgments of the value of academic work than, say, anonymous commenters on Hacker News.