15th June 2008, 7:22 AM
This basically means massive tax cuts and scientific projects specifically decided by political movings. Of course, that's absolutely foolish. For science to work, it CAN'T be controlled as such by political considerations, funded ONLY when it benefits some politician's popularity to do so. Science MUST be funded in a more general manner, so it can grow on it's own freely, or it'll simply become retarded (in the classical definition).
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk...138240.ece
Steven Hawking has a few things to say about this...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk...138240.ece
Steven Hawking has a few things to say about this...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)