The budget doesnt matter since Congress never pays any attention to them and the constraints are not the Presidents fault since it is Congress that imposed the limits, but funding for science is not pretty in the new proposal. That means more reliance on corporate funding of basic research and the control of and direction of research thus entailed. So, as on so many fronts. the US continues to back away from public support for science and independent inquiry. chronicle/article/Spending-on-Science-Already/145123/
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 01:11:48 +0000