There's a little-known dirty secret in science funding; prior to World War II and the Manhattan Project, the overwhelming majority of basic research was done by corporations. Thus, the tanks, planes, materials advancements and everything else were created by the private sector. read...
read moreHow much impact can taxes and bans have on the conduct of people? Quite a lot. A 500% tax would clearly reduce demand while outright bans of desired products keep law-abiding people from using a product - and make the others rich. In defiance of well-established history of resentment about government steering drink choices for freedom-loving westerners - the UK lost a whole colony when they...
read moreOne argument for putting a halt to government spending billions of dollars doing Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) 'outreach' is that, like all government programs, they become self-serving and never, ever stop. read...
read moreIn the wave of articles, blog posts and Tweets that are addressing the impact of the shutdown on science, no one has asked the obvious question: If the president care about science so much, why doesn't he care about science?I have argued that science should be considered a strategic resource, no different than food and oil - yet the President who declared he was going to "restore science to its...
read moreIf you visit the outside of a meeting regarding biology and policy today, you are sure to see protesters who all insist that they should be voting on the science. They have reached their own consensus and their consensus is that biologists are just tinkerers who are out to create a scientocracy not bound by morality or ethics or anything beyond the cold pursuit of violating nature. read...
read moreIf you visit the outside of a meeting regarding biology and policy today, you are sure to see protesters who all insist that they should be voting on the science. They have reached their own consensus and their consensus is that biologists are just tinkerers who are out to create a scientocracy not bound by morality or ethics or anything beyond the cold pursuit of violating nature. read...
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