I think the best funding model would be self-funding through monetizing the innovative new knowledge generated by research. However, few academics know how to make money. We need a new Edison or two to take the lead.
Note: every citizen who trusts science less if it 'receives financial incentives from government' should also trust it less if it's 'funded by the federal government' at all. Given how grant awards and renewals work, those two are functionally equivalent....https://twitter.com/pewresearch/status/1157412262870695936 …
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Would the scientists not then likely become bogged down with business admin though (wasting their competitive advantage and which they may be terrible at)? Woz + Jobs complimented each other perfectly
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But how is 'openly available to the public' less trust worthy?
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Also, this is what people say, but I feel pretty confident saying peoples views are influenced by just the headlines written about these studies.
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I imagine the level of trust varies according to how politically loaded the subject matter of the study is
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I didn't appreciate that they completely left psychology and sociology out of the scientific fields they drilled into. Choosing the fields they did provides for an easy perception of ideological skew in knowledge vs trust in science.
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They are paid by oil ... Ok .. how much money does the Ipcc get ? NASA, Greenpeace, Fridays for future , the UN...???
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