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Re:How a Shrimp Treadmill Became a Political Plaything by icelancer on Saturday November 15, 2014 @01:09AM (#8611003)
>one is left to wonder how it is even arithmetically possible in 2014, that there isn't yet a financially lofty interest-group apparatus in Washington, advancing policies that collectively foster the cause of basic research in science & tech.

Not really. People who are interested in actually contributing to the world by scientific research and technological innovation have zero interest in a field that is overwhelmingly useless and idiotic: Politics.

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Re:How a Shrimp Treadmill Became a Political Plaything by zo1 on Saturday November 15, 2014 @10:15AM (#8611803)
>"People who are interested in actually contributing to the world by scientific research and technological innovation have zero interest in a field that is overwhelmingly useless and idiotic: Politics."

You say politics as a field is deemed useless by those people, and yet the funding for them to pursue the thing they are interested in is directly affected by said "useless field".

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