Re: Weather Channel Founder says\"Global Warming is Biggest Scam in His
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There seems to me to be an implicit assumption that efficiency is very important. Clearly it is important, but only one of many factors that is used to take the measure of society. Even if government funded research is less efficient somehow, that isn't necessarily the be all and end all of the situation.
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Yeah you need basic research, not just applied research. And profit organizations tend to prefer applied research. It gets too easy to say that 'the market would see the need for basic research' when little supports that notion. Esp. when you consider things such as patents and copyright it can get horrible.
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False dichotomy. Nobody is talking about outlawing non-profit research.
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