UnderstatedCornHole said:
Yes. I'm sure there will be some original good faith research knocking around but finding it is difficult as the field covered is always very narrow regardless of it being public or privately funded. It's always super focused and contexts are never included. For me to believe any public funded research I need it to be collaberated with competeing research fields. Never happens. It's a cherry pickers heaven and it's getting worse, across the board. |
So as someone that works in that filthy liberal hellhole and knows hundreds of people doing basic research, I'd like to know what is the liberal slant on what I do. Trying to perfect a cupredoxin model within a three helical bundle de novo protein. Or hell, the work I did in Milwaukee to better understand nitric oxide's reaction with oxygen bound heme within myoglobin or trHbN.
What I'm trying to get across, is that as someone who works in that field and knows so many what work on interesting basic research you sound like a crackpot conservative conspiracy theorist when you right off all basic research without giving specific examples because I can give all kinds of examples from my own field which have nothing to do with a liberal slant because it's just good scientists doing interesting research because it moves the field forward. If you have specific examples I'd love to hear it, but this idea that all publically funded research is by necessity tainted is just insane. Basic research is so important to moving society forward, and government funding is basically the only way that it's going to happen. It saddens me to see someone so against it as a concept.
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