We all based our decision on something, something we trust as simple as 1+1 = 2 or traffic lights is not trying to kill us with green on all 4 ways. Science is building future knowledge based on past knowledge, so it is more important to build it right instead of discard it completely. What are you going to build your decision on without science? Your engine oil is based on science and you don't put caster oil in your engine in 2023 because Castrol used to do it.
There are plenty of societies back in times and today with no functioning government. You do not want to live in one (Somalia).
The problem with massive government funding of research….
Is once it becomes great enough and high enough of percentage of those “ researchers” paid money to them and those lovely “ higher institutions of learning”.
Then those results WILL be guaranteed to be weighted in favor of whatever the omnipotent STATE wants those results to be.
And to be candid…. The EXACT same phenomenon is true if “ research “ is bought and paid for multinational corporations. And the “higher institutions of learning” and those “researchers” are bought and paid for too.
Then the supposedly independent “referee” is therefore removed from the match.
Research … Legitimate research with no real paid for biases one way or the other is what is ACTUALLY key here.
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