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Across the board budget cuts say nothing about supporting the scientific method. These university could easily fund their projects out of their massive multi-bi
by brianmurphy 2y ago
Across the board budget cuts say nothing about supporting the scientific method. These university could easily fund their projects out of their massive multi-billion dollar endowments. We should ask why they aren't.
- TimorousBestie 2y ago> Across the board budget cuts say nothing about supporting the scientific method. Semantic nihilism. It’s a basic fact of political science that governments enact policies in order to achieve outcomes. Or if you prefer cybernetics, there’s always Stafford Beer: “The purpose of a system is what is does.”