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Governments should only fund science that doesn't promote immediate economic gain - such economic gain will fund itself. Government funding should be un-econom
by ronaldx 13y ago
Governments should only fund science that doesn't promote immediate economic gain - such economic gain will fund itself.
Government funding should be un-economic.
- dnautics 13y agothat's a cute thought. How do you, then pick which projects aren't run by total charlatans - to fund them? I suppose you could have grant review boards. But these grant review boards are then populated with other 'expert scientists' who are merely people who were funded by the exact same process. Eventually the whole thing becomes a cyclical echo chamber populated by an elite cadre of politically connected scientists, who, because of perverse, monetary or non-monetary incentives (such as status), performance might be unhinged from any character traits actually important to science, like ability to craft smart experiments, ability to pick up scientific insight, or ability to do experiments without fudging data.
- ronaldx 13y agoI'm not exactly sure if that's different from current academia :)