Not this crap again! He wants applied science to the exclusion of basic science.
I am feeling sadness and mourning for science the definition and funding of which has become the domain of judges and lawyers. It is an all encompasing term which loses its meaning the more it tries to include. In my day, historians were trying to adopt the quantitative methods of science without much success because they were not well trained in those areas. That is just one example of the bad effects of amateurs making judgments and decisions based on fuzzy notions of what science is or should be. Another is the perennial Darwin debate which bears no ressemblance to the thinking of modern biology.