Comment by linuxhansl

Can't tell if your comment sarcasm or not. But I'll bite.

Sure thing. It's all fraud and conspiracy. Fundamental science is worthless if it cannot be immediately monetized. All scientist are money-hungry crooks. Let's just stop all research then. Who needs antibiotics, or vaccines, or cancer research, or food safety. Who needs to know about the universe, or about quantum mechanics. It's all just elite stuff... Let's get rid of it.

Government is precisely the place to fund stuff that does not fit into the free market.