Post #4335126
2026-07-23 21:27 UTC
@mattsheffield@mastodon.social
Fair enough -- physics (etc) is not my bailiwick. But claiming that public science should be defunded because it hasn't made "enough" progress is a misuse of these arguments at best and completely ungrounded at worst. From a policy standpoint makes sense to quantify and weigh the outcomes of different alternatives and adopt that with the greatest expected value. (unfortunately, I fear that the agenda of these bad actors is the opposite)...
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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social 2026-07-23 21:48
@knutson_brain@sfba.social Agreed. Government has more cash and know-how than any private actor could have, and so it is not only more efficient for it to do science this way, it is also a societal duty for government to fund basic science without care to its possible monetization.