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Re:The End of Public Funded Research by yummyfajitas on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @12:12PM (#1979687)
If Republican presidents behave as they have in the past, science funding is likely to increase.

http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/trtot08p.pdf

http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/trres08p.pdf

Don't know about the house and senate.

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Re:The End of Public Funded Research by stygianguest on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @12:44PM (#1979808)
I'm really dissapointed that the ministery of peace has always gotten more research money than the normal variety. It seems hard to defend especially since the cold war ended. Some people must be really eager to start a new cold war with China. Depressing.
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Re:The End of Public Funded Research by yummyfajitas on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @01:01PM (#1979890)
The military funds a huge amount of basic research.

For example, a huge amount of computational E&M is funded by the military. Most of it is published in non-classified (though paywalled) journals and is directly useful to anyone building E&M communication or sensor devices. (I cite computational E&M specifically because I used to work in that field.)

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Re:The End of Public Funded Research by juiceandjuice on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @12:25PM (#1979735)
http://www.nsf.gov/about/congress/107/highlights/cu02_1219.j...

Long story short: Republicans go along with the minimum budget increase possible.

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Re:The End of Public Funded Research by yummyfajitas on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @01:07PM (#1979923)
So how come the minimum budget increase possible was so large under Bush, also fairly large under Reagan, but so small under Clinton?
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