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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I sure wouldn't call it scientific progress, if that's what you're implying.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Science isn't just about nice stuff

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why not?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's just how the term is defined. Blame English language users, I guess

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes. Nice science and evil science.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. Goes all under "science"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Problem solved then! Everyone just needs to do killing people science in order to make a living.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are you really upset that the term "science" includes even things we might personally find upsetting?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because our (US) current priorities fuel a worldwide arms race, while real investment in basic sciences would benefit humanity and keep postdocs from starving. The entire NIH budget for everything is $47 billion, while the Department of Defense budget is $825 billion, $145 billion of which for R&D. You think we should be spending $100 billion per year more on killing people than on making people's lives better?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't know what you imagine I was saying, I was just trying to say that a lot of that is science.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

All I'm saying is that postdocs shouldn't be living below the poverty line with a side of stop killing people.