I love Veronica Mars and I can honestly say I'm more excited about that than anything I've ever seen on kickstarter. You wanna know why? Because it's a known en

I love Veronica Mars and I can honestly say I'm more excited about that than anything I've ever seen on kickstarter. You wanna know why? Because it's a known entity, I know what I'm paying for, I know I'll enjoy it. I have no idea how I would even start to evaluate the worth of products (or science grants, in this case) when they don't exist yet, their applications and benefits are not entirely clear, etc. I have no expertise in most fields, so I would much rather let someone who knows what they're doing hand out (my!) grant money. EDIT: For example, I'm all for research for breast cancer, but there's already a LOT of money out there for that. How on earth do I figure out whether my money will do any good? I can't exactly read the literature and have an understanding of the subject without many months of research and getting up to speed in, uhh, biology as related to the spread of breast cancer. My sister's getting her PhD in biology and I know enough to know I know nothing.