MIT's Pathway to Fusion Energy [video]

Re:MIT's Pathway to Fusion Energy [video] by mozumder on Sunday July 23, 2017 @11:16PM (#14835651)

> Remember kids--and by kids, I mean fellow scientists--every presentation serves to either help secure or maintain funding.

What's the point of this statement? Funding is how things happen - these things don't happen out of thin air.

"Remember kids--and by kids, I mean fellow scientists--every presentation serves to either help doing or maintain doing."

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Re:MIT's Pathway to Fusion Energy [video] by Smaug123 on Sunday July 23, 2017 @11:33PM (#14835710)

Sometimes a presentation is just a presentation. A means of imparting unbiased knowledge.

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Re:MIT's Pathway to Fusion Energy [video] by ruleabidinguser on Monday July 24, 2017 @12:47AM (#14835949)

It's a reminder not to think the presenter was honestly trying to teach

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Re:MIT's Pathway to Fusion Energy [video] by noobermin on Monday July 24, 2017 @01:31AM (#14836096)

Or not necessarily that there isn't any noble intention in him, of course there is some. But, the pressure of keeping funding will always color their presentations, for example, to make them leave out other competing groups and ideas.

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