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To: FredZarguna
They’re serious about doing basic research, while pretending it has practical applicability in order to get gullible people (in the government — but I repeat myself) to fund it.

Everyone's a cynic. Dime a dozen...

56 posted on 11/29/2013 8:40:27 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

No cynicism involved. Just a brief flirtation with academia in the 1970’s and 1980’s and resultant inside knowledge of the whole racket.


60 posted on 11/29/2013 8:51:10 PM PST by FredZarguna (The sequel, thoroughly pointless, derivative, and boring was like all James Cameron "films.")
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