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Science Writer: Research Should Not Be Publicly Funded

He defends his view by pointing out that waste, futility, and fraud are too frequent outcomes of taxpayer funding

English’s proposal is perhaps best seen as a call to assess what the taxpaying public is really buying for all that science funding. Are there smarter ways to spend the money?

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