Comments on: Why the Government Should Stay Out of Science, Completely

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By: libertariangirl

libertariangirl — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:12:04 +0000

Here you go… the quote appeared in a 2007 issue of Current Biology. I transferred it into a more manageable URL.
http://tinyurl.com/32f89p

If you have journal access, you should be able to see it.

Undergrads definitely get shafted in the process, for a focus on graduate students and their research. Most people will never be grad students, though, so most students suffer. I had some terrible TAs when I was in college, and the TAs are the ones grading you in the course.

By: P.K.

P.K. — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:04:35 +0000

You are right about the deleterious effects of government funding on science. It has been especially harmful to the educational mission of the universities. “Publish or perish” has been replaced by “Get funded or get out.” I have known department chairmen to brag that their faculty do not have to teach undergraduates at all.

Question: Can you provide a source for the Szilard quote?

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Libertarian Girl » Blog Archive » How To Survive a Campus Carjacking — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:25:41 +0000

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By: libertariangirl

libertariangirl — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:58:10 +0000

I agree that it would help if people knew more about science. Is that going to happen, though? I think a large reason this doesn’t happen is due to another government-controlled entity, public education. Little kids love science, but at some point something happens where nearly everyone begins to dislike it, or at least dislike studying it.

At the Drexler lecture, the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences mentioned that many people say we need more scholarships to encourage science students. But he doesn’t think the science students will magically appear; it’s been made clear that most college students do not want to study science. (The example he gave was that the physics department struggles to get even 10 physics majors a year.)

Science shouldn’t respond to the will of the people– if polled, most people probably would have said they didn’t want a car or a plane, and they’d see no reason for a personal computer. I had a friend who got made fun of in the early ’90s for suggesting to his junior high friends that someone should make a portable mp3 player. After these things come out, people realize they’d like to have them. Government responds to the past, the free market to the future– which is why science should go more towards the latter, not the former.

By: M. Simon

M. Simon — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:15:14 +0000

To iron all this out the American people are going to need to get more knowledgeable about science. Here is an approach to fusion that was refunded due to public clamor: WB-7 First Plasma Government, for good or ill, responds to the will of the people.