Government should support science — not social engineering
The U.S. and Canada are both diverting significant sums away from scientific research to support social justice instead, as I describe in my newest National Post piece.
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“For countries to compete economically in the 21st century, support for fundamental research in science and engineering needs to be an integral part of policymaking. China, India, Singapore, Korea and numerous other countries are devoting billions to building up their research enterprises, and in numerous cases are beginning to outstrip the West. One of the problems in North America is that major science funding agencies have become fixated on devoting resources to addressing perceived social justice issues, drawing key funding away from the science enterprise itself….”
read my newest piece on this issue in the National Post.
Ok, so this is fairly labeled trolling, but.... Physicists first give us the tools by which we can destroy everything everywhere in a highly efficient manner, and then.... They lecture us about not sufficiently funding their work.
Seriously, the question that the science community should be addressing is....
How much power can human beings successfully manage?
For the purposes of this post I'll define "successfully manage" as not crashing the civilization that science depends upon.
Disappointing that NSF is now following the anti-meritocratic path. Having been someone who benefited from being good at test taking that allow me to escape the shop class/ mechanic path my K-12 eduction had me on this trend will be detrimental to the future of this planet. We will need the super bright nerds who understand the details to allow humanity to continue to solve the problems of poverty and starvation in a world with 3 billion more people on the way.