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The next government will flip it around, and use NRC to further THEIR ends. Please forgive my cynicism, but the act of thinking that one political party is "be
by nickff 14y ago
The next government will flip it around, and use NRC to further THEIR ends. Please forgive my cynicism, but the act of thinking that one political party is "better" than the other is a triumph of optimism over experience.
- tensor 14y agoIt is actually possible for one party to be "better" than another. In this case, we are talking about science, and it is very obvious that limiting science in this way is "worse." Science doesn't respect your political bias.
- nickff 14y agoI was not addressing the possibility of impartial administration of research funding. I was merely stating that, given the record of Canadian (and other) governments, impartiality is unlikely, regardless of party affiliation. I should also state that any budget is, by definition limited, as it is an allocation of scarce resources; so any budget will "limit science".