[Just mythoughts]

Your initial point was that the theory was dependent upon public funding. Obviously this is not the case. Now you bring up the fallacy of appeal to consequences.

WRONG, I stand behind my initial point as you call it. TOE is nothing without public funding. TOE is a cult funded and paid for by taxpayers, plain and simple. Consequences are always there with anything including the TOE.

[allmendream]

The theory of natural selection was formulated and researched and became preeminent WORLDWIDE among scientists long before public funding, and mostly (at that time) in the face of government opposition both in the USA and the USSR and elsewhere.

[Fichori]

“WRONG, I stand behind my initial point as you call it. TOE is nothing without public funding. TOE is a cult funded and paid for by taxpayers, plain and simple. Consequences are always there with anything including the TOE.”

Correct.

Its all about the money.