[GulliverSwift]

The real problem with scientific research is that it's too tied to the government and the university. Problem is, though, that the govmint has so much cash it can direct research instead of letting the free market decide which scientific frontiers need to be explored. Those who criticize this article damn well ought to concede this fact. AIDS kills nowhere near the amount of people proportionate to the amount of money we spend on it.

[expatpat]

I agree with you. While Political Correctness is not much of a problem in the hard sciences, it is rife in the soft sciences and biological (semi-soft) sciences.