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Paid for by taxpayers via 37 academic grants and fellowships primarily from the EU. Minority contributions are from the US (NIH). One corporation (Santander Bank).
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Brought to you by the Tax Payers of Czechia, Germany, and the EU via : * Czech Science Foundation * The Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic * European Research Council * Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation
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What exactly is 'pretending' and what is 'real'? Are we to leave that up to the politicians to decide that rather than the scientists themselves? The 'deal' of basic science in the US is that the government fun
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Yet another advance brought to you by US tax dollars funding basic science for the public good. Please don't let them embezzle the future of scientific innovation.
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Exactly, we need a label, maybe call it "Nutrition Facts" or something like that which lists all ingredients. We'd need a way to enforce it though. Maybe make the farmers pinky-swear not to lie on the label because it is chea
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>my point is that regulation is a burden By definition. Like a laws against murder are a burden to murderers. The key to stopping murders isn't "get rid of the murder laws", but fix what made these people people violent (l
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It's cause were poor.
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> but I don’t know that these are the best exemplars of cutting edge science Then you simply aren't familiar with their work. These (plus NIH, DOE, DOD etc.) are the engines of a large portion of the world's science. The engin
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The tech behind this is not new or difficult. The issues are related to safety and regulation. Early efforts in gene therapy had disastrous results and current treatments are not trying to repeat past mistakes. There is tremendous potential
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If the target of reform is admin and not researchers, then the "reforms" should target the admin and not the researchers. What we see however is cancer research being cancelled and students careers being thrown in the dumpster. Yo
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>Meanwhile, the local NVIDIA office operates out of a building that looks decidedly unremarkable, even shabby by comparison. And where do those NVIDIA employees live? In a van down by the river? Dorms are residential and need amenities,
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What possibly could feel good about entering a new dark age?
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Made possible by government funding of basic scientific research. This is what your tax dollars bought, and what they're currently trying to destroy.
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It's an average citation count. I am in no way discrediting them. If anything, I am praising the article you posted for contributing to the progress of knowledge sharing and showing how it caused change. Change brought by the very syst
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That's just flat-out wrong. It is field dependent, but 40 is about average for biomedical basic research. Here is a citation for cardiovascular research average citation rates : ( https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles&#
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It was published and cited. 45 in 10 years is a reasonably okay citation count. What's the problem? Science is slow and consensus based. Ideas are put forth, tested, and replicated. Eventually a consensus is formed. If enough new cont
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I guess it depends where you set the starting point. Was it a dead end exacerbated by fabricated data? Yes. Did the system correct itself (relatively) quickly. Yes. Working as intended.
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Anti-science types keep holding this up as some kind of 'gotcha' or as a waste, but in the end it shows that the scientific method and the scientific establishment work efficiently. Despite even intentional fabrication, the truth
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Blanket tarrifs can't be avoided. Even limited to "luxuries", which they're not, will still include necessities for a modern productive society. Hobbling the workforce is not a plan for success. It is robbery by the olig
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Tariffs are a tax on the poor.
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Instead of cutting cancer research or Nasa, maybe tax the rich? Wild idea, I know.
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Research is public funded because it creates public good. Most basic research is not profitable which is why it is in the publics best interests to subsidize it rather than rely in the whims of corporations. Even then ROI for taxpayers is s
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>AI art is often terrible and slightly creepy. I have seen AI art that was fine. This is very rare. This is just the "special effects" problem all over again, its use is invisible if done correctly. Only the bad produced SFX st
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K-12 and undergraduate are passable. The thing that the US excels at is scale. No other country can match the US academic research environment. Thousands of well funded research institutions. Broad competitive funding opportunities at every
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This makes me think about The Dark Forest and the chain of distrust that results from lightspeed communications at stellar scale. The universe is harsh...
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The important point here is that science corrected itself. It saw a lack of progress from a direction of inquiry and using its established mechanisms rerouted that inquiry. To expect that every effort will succeed and be perfect is just nai
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Standing on the shoulders of giants, the growth LLMs is built on a foundation of government funded academic training and research without which it would not have been possible. Also, I didn't say there is no corporate basic research. T
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>All it will do is take government out of the equation. The middle-class professional scientist is an invention of post-war governments to create an engine of progress. Pre-war science was a gentleman's hobby, funded by the bored ri
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Seconded. Everyone is just fighting for survival at this point and it will have decades of consequences.
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> To put it mildly, our government contacts were not the most competent people and were frequently roadblocks rather than enablers. PhD students aren't usually the ones interacting with program officers or grant institutions so I&#x

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