Worse, all the cosmologists, astronomers, astro physicists just discovered a blind spot in monitoring incoming asteroids. After all these years with their technology and white boards they couldn't figure out the Earth's rotation along with the matching trajectory of asteroids we may not see a hit coming?
I have lost faith in scientists. I firmly believe it's about their grants now adays. They create their hypothesis (theories) and the idiots in DC say on no, we're all gonna die. Here is more grant money.
In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been over shadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.