[Modernman]

Who funds most of the scientific community? Who funds their school books? Their PEER REVIEWs? Their classrooms. Their salaries?

And government funding of science is bad why? Expecially when it comes to pure scientific research (rather than applied science), many types of scientific research could never end up being profitable, in of themselves, so the private sector would never fund them.

[Just mythoughts]

Hey I have a brother-in-law beggar.

He wants to be famous, no way would "private research" give him that.

It is a mockery to call anything "pure" until it is tried and tested. Evolution is so filled with probables, possibles, maybes and ifs there is nothing "pure" about it.