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New Tom Levenson: Let's waste more money on science
http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2016/12/11/let-waste-more-money-science/afvbusk8G5T5IcrgldkmJJ/story.html

An excellent read.

(Tom is an MIT professor of science writing and a front-pager at Balloon-Juice.)

Cheers,
Scott.
New Thank you for that link!
The idea of not expecting nearly instant gratification from research is not new, but the examples of long term and even totally unforeseen benefits is excellent.
Alex

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

-- Isaac Asimov
New Re: Tom Levenson: Let's waste more money on science
Some quotes stored-together way-back: as seem to fit perzackly the (current-version in the perpetual Series) End-of-all-Sentient-Life situations (for another venue.)
Some of these may append well [??] to Boston Globe’s opus (penuriously near its PayWall blackout—like so many other place$ now—talk about hiding Every-one’s candle(s) under a bushel basket..) These, then:

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
[cf. Boltzmann’s Atom amidst other stories re the inevitable “safe-science creates fewer waves” mindsets to be found]

"The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function." -- Edward Teller
"If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament." -- A Boston cabbie, to Gloria Steinem, in the 1970s [ref'd also in Zyklon B -- a pretty good excoriation also, to pussy-grabbers of all retarded ages.
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria, c.400
"Yes, the Democrats are corrupt and inept. But the other side is batshit insane." -- Digby
"Die Stimme der Vernuft ist leise." (The voice of reason is soft) -- T. Wu

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of mankind's oldest philosophical endeavors: the search for a moral justification for selfishness" -- adressad unbekannt
"I beseech you,... think it possible you may be mistaken." -- Cromwell/Bronowski
"Life isn't a battle between good and evil, it's a battle between signal and noise."

Guess we have to face also-too: an apparent factoid that, being able to employ the Scientific Method ..to some purpose ..and successfully? guarantees-Not that
a well-balanced mind/ a working Scale/Relativity metric? will accompany all practitioners
{Ex.: Shockley and his Race-assertions; he was OK on early transistors, but..}


Carrion..
(Do prepare for largest-yet helpings of that diet,) as all prepare to study assiduously a manual said to be nearing beta:
On the detection, perception of pseudo-profound Bull-shit in helpings never so huge as what …

Look! In the Road: A head.
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             :-) Thanks. -NT - (Another Scott)

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