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The problem of research funding : Comments

By Don Aitkin, published 18/6/2014

Good research is better in the long run, and much cheaper for all of us, than convenient research, let alone pretentious rubbish.

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What exactly is a research "failure"?

It must be easy to define, because we have so much of it apparently.
Posted by Bugsy, Friday, 20 June 2014 11:02:39 AM
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I would suggest Bugsy, you take a glance in any university, where you will find thousands of "professors" doing as little as possible to justify the grant for their concocted, just for funding, "research project".

You know the one. That's right, they have been doing it for years, although they have known for years, that it was going nowhere. Still it avoids them having to concoct a new grant application, & should cover them until retirement, with any luck.

That is perhaps the research failure you are looking for, with eyes wide closed.
Posted by Hasbeen, Friday, 20 June 2014 11:49:10 AM
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So you obviously don't know either then Hasbeen.

The 'university' you envision exists only in what's left of your mind.
Posted by Bugsy, Friday, 20 June 2014 1:06:58 PM
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THE PROBLEM..clearly,,is<<..What exactly is a research "failure">>
funding the wrong rubbish elite
who are expert at sucking off the public cash coWS[qango's]

It is/only to easy to define,
because we have so much of it
apparently..some are so comfortable,,too comfortable
but its best if we dont blame them,,[see special intrests/got into highr education,,and they been slowly training us to know facts..but not how to form..our own validation;fact file.

teach a man to fish
you feed him for life
teach the man to leave the breeding fish breeD/he feeds his nation,

to eat life,,is what life is about[more blessed the lion that be meat for man[than man who be meat for lie.[lying]..best to..look at life lightly.some take this living too seriously/first laugh/at others then laugh at leaders/then laugh at self,
Posted by one under god, Friday, 20 June 2014 4:12:12 PM
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"So you obviously don't know either then Hasbeen.

The 'university' you envision exists only in what's left of your mind."

Exactly, Bugsy.

Hasbeen lives in some sort of alternative universe where research funding goes on for ever rather than being limited to 3 to 5 year projects like happens in every other universe.

This is the same alternative universe where thousands of scientists lie so they can fight amongst themselves over a miniscule amount of research funding and no one but Hasbeen seems to notice.
Posted by Agronomist, Friday, 20 June 2014 9:10:33 PM
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Wow! Doesn't a little home truth stir up the boys.

Gets them off the teat long enough for them to cry foul.

Better get back to sucking boys, or you might get an airlock, & have trouble restarting the flow.
Posted by Hasbeen, Friday, 20 June 2014 10:04:20 PM
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