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To: TimF who wrote (324198)	2/1/2007 8:13:20 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575761

"Government funded research does not equal all research." Excuse me Tim, but businesses don't do basic research. Well, Bell Labs and Watson Labs used to do some, but basic research has been the province of the government since WWII in this country. But without grants, outside of some theoretical research, there isn't much done. "Cut off for several years is more a pause than an end" More of a pause than you are alluding to. Projects got stopped, people moved on. "And I was being generous to you by taking your statement as meaning that research on energy alternatives was put on hold by the Reagan admin. But seeing as your talking about the NIH, it seems like your saying that government funded basic research on everything was essentially stopped by Reagan, and that isn't true." Yes it is true. They were proud of killing off the alternative energy research. Most of basic research was shut down according to the journals I was reading at the time. I know it was true for NIH, but the journals claimed it was wider than that. While I might have been a technician, I was considering going back to grad school at the time, so I was acutely aware of the state of things. I didn't because the prospects were so bleak. What are you basing your assertions on? I am basing it on my experience.