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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1162259)9/6/2019 2:41:15 PM
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Funding agencies that pay scientists to write papers determine what gets said in those papers.

Scientists have to eat too, compete with other scientists for budgets, while coming up with new-nonsense to capture CNN’s attention and the public’s imagination.

Did you think scientists were also altruists?

“Funding of science. The term often connotes funding obtained through a competitive process, in which potential research projects are evaluated and only the most promising receive funding. Such processes, which are run by government, corporations or foundations, allocate scarce funds.”

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