Comment by qsera
6 hours ago
What is your point man? Can you state simply? Is it that cutting funding for "science" is bad, without exception?
6 hours ago
What is your point man? Can you state simply? Is it that cutting funding for "science" is bad, without exception?
Beyond doing the best research you can do, given the conditions, there is no apolitical norm for what makes a researcher legitimate or illegitimate.
There is no bad cutting or good cutting, there's only politics. Meaning, an argument for what make some problems more important or worthwhile is not an apolitical argument, it's an argument of how other people should live.
As in, you don't get to conclude that you're obviously right and they're obviously wrong.
So you elect leaders to make those "political" decisions. I don't see the problem here. I think no politician or leader would say that they are "obviously" right, but they don't have to be. That is what a leader is supposed to do. If they only did the absolute "right" think, they will do nothing.
And about the "good/bad cutting", I think it only mean in relative terms, because funds are not infinite...