[clue-talk] Send your ideas to Obama

[Collins Richey]

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:38 AM, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu> wrote:
> How do we keep politics out of science, when science is no longer privately funded?  I have an idea:  Get
> government out of the business of funding research.  Let the companies do their own funding, ~then~ politics
> and science will be separate.

Sounds really cool, but you'll never get the party currently in power
to agree. Even the party no longer in power might give only lukewarm
support.

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Collins Richey
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