14th January 2008, 11:28 AM
A lot of funding, but not all, and the fact is the market is not all knowing. If there is not immediate returns, most companies won't invest in what's called the "pure science". However, that's the most important stuff, stuff like finding the higgs boson. Unfortunatly US funding for the massive collider that could create conditions where one might be detected, if it exists, has been cancelled. Instead, it's going to stuff like sending humans to Mars. As much as the idea intrigues me, I'll be the first to admit that as far as the science is concerned, robots can do the job better.
Yes it's not his business to "decide" what's true, but it is his business to listen to scientific advisors (does Bush even HAVE scientific advisors?) and base his decisions on what the science actually says.
Yes it's not his business to "decide" what's true, but it is his business to listen to scientific advisors (does Bush even HAVE scientific advisors?) and base his decisions on what the science actually says.
"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)