Yes, it should be funded, but not without consideration of alternatives for particular measures. There is a lot of bad, expensive neuroscience work - much of it

Yes, it should be funded, but not without consideration of alternatives for particular measures. There is a lot of bad, expensive neuroscience work - much of it yields no significant result - but there are also important results that are unavailable by other means. It's good to inject caution but the potential for great advances in understanding how the mind works is still there.