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Re:We Should Not Accept Scientific Results That Have Not Bee... by jerf on Friday July 29, 2016 @06:35PM (#12190549)
I think it's on a pedestal where it matters, where the funding decisions are being made. The public's opinion only matters in the long term. Though, admittedly, the long term is probably coming up pretty quickly. There's a lot of things that have had their opinion trending negative for so long that people have become blase about the negative trends suddenly coming due this year.
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Re:We Should Not Accept Scientific Results That Have Not Bee... by dalke on Friday July 29, 2016 @06:46PM (#12190606)
On reconsideration, I'm wavering on my belief. NIH and NSF get a lot more support than, say, the NEA. HST, fine as it is, was extremely expensive.

I still maintain that the military is still on a higher pedestal than science, in terms of funding and prestige. You hear stories of people buying military people in uniform their meal, to honor their service. That's much less common for scientists.

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