See, you can't have it both ways. You can't yell "public money for basic science!" and then just ignore...
See, you can't have it both ways. You can't yell "public money for basic science!" and then just ignore the strings that come with it, when it suits you.
This is also part of why basic science should not be funded by government: because then science becomes political. And there's no way around this, except to subvert democracy. You simply cannot have independent science done without political interference, when the politicians are the ones funding the science, unless you destroy democratic controls over the political process.
It is important to understand this truism.
This is also part of why basic science should not be funded by government: because then science becomes political. And there's no way around this, except to subvert democracy. You simply cannot have independent science done without political interference, when the politicians are the ones funding the science, unless you destroy democratic controls over the political process.
It is important to understand this truism.
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
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