Comment by dataflow
8 hours ago
> Publicly funded maths research should continue, even if some taxpayers feel it's a waste of money.
Note, I think the debate is mainly over what research should be funded, not whether any research should be funded.
8 hours ago
> Publicly funded maths research should continue, even if some taxpayers feel it's a waste of money.
Note, I think the debate is mainly over what research should be funded, not whether any research should be funded.
it's the same - what research getting funded should not be determined by the applied nature of the research.
In fact, the taxpayer should be funding fundamental research because it's so hard to justify profit from it - but that funding would benefit all in the long future.
So leaving the applied research that have commercial value be funded by private, commercial interests, would make more sense.