Flagg wrote:
Macbeth wrote:
This will be the same scientists who spent thousands of pounds of grant money trying to discover if toast always falls butter side down then. Or any one of a thousand obvious things that "science" proves, at great expense. And to think that the THICK kids used to get into trouble for setting fire to the gas-taps at school, or making nitro-glycerine, or mustard gas.. and now people are paying the smart kids to twat about on the JOB.
F*cking time-wasters. Get a proper job or research something worth studying. They haven't cracked that cancer thing yet, yknow...
If thats the attitude we take to science then we will never get anything more done. Science requires lots of little dabblers off in the corner just in case one comes up with the next breakthrough in science. The greatest leaps in science have always come from men who didn't set out to make great discoveries, just men who set out answer a question that was annoying them half to death.
Just to clarify: I have no issue with "dabbling in the corner" or the whole accidental discovery part of science. Discovering post-it notes whilst trying to make superglue, or inventing microwave cookery when you should be watching the radar,. thats all fine. I just take issue with people requesting funding to research utterly dumbass things in their own right. Though possibly the fault lies with the people who allocate the funding in the first place. Either way, large amounts of cash is used in pointless tasks to prove stuff that doesnt usually need proving.
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that you can't take part" [Mario Savo, 1964]