[MD] Faith/Skepticism

[Platt Holden]

> [Krimel]
> Science has suffered tragically for the past eight years under an
> administration whose central theme seems to have been, "we were told
> there
> would be no math..." Pure research has typically been funded by the
> federal
> government at the university level. That it has not been adequately
> funded,
> is a serious problem that the new administration seems committed to
> correcting. (It is soooooo refreshing to have smart people in charge for
> a
> change.)

The "smart people" who took over Congress two years ago and the presidency 
in January are really doing a bang up job. Very refreshing, if you like 
watching your savings go down the toilet.   

> But again the problems are political not scientific. Of course
> science is not independent but the problems that you bitch about are not
> scientific, they are, as I keep trying to tell you, political, economic
> and
> philosophical. Try to keep up, will you?

Government grants to university scientists not political? Try on a new pair 
of spectacles, will you?.