Unfortunately, recent government behavior has damaged the cause of basic science. It has blurred the distinction between fundamental research and technical refinements (often of 19th-century technologies — faster trains, better batteries, longer-lasting light bulbs). It has sown confusion about the difference between supporting scientific research and practicing industrial policy with subsidies — often incompetently and sometimes corruptly dispensed — for private corporations oriented to existing markets rather than unimagined applications. And beginning with the indiscriminate and ineffective 2009 stimulus, government has incited indiscriminate hostility to public spending."Government has incited indiscriminate hostility to public spending?" What a dishonest hack. What a hypocrite!
George Will Wants the Government to Do Scientific Research by Dean Baker
George Will Now Against Intentional Irrationality by Jonathan Chait
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