[RightWingAtheist]

I think science is best served by a two-tiered economic system, both with government expenditures and an economic system and climate that encourages massive investment into research by private companies and philanthropies. While it's appaling enough that some people don't want to see any public science funding (their attitude is basically "why pay our most educated people to actually work, when we should just hand it over to those too stupid and lazy to get a job or education?"), but I'm equally disheartened that some people don't recognize there's a role for the private sector as well, or that a free economy is necessary for a healthy research environment, especially since some of these voices come from those within the scientific community frightened by the "corporatization" of research.

[RadioAstronomer]

but I'm equally disheartened that some people don't recognize there's a role for the private sector as well, or that a free economy is necessary for a healthy research environment, especially since some of these voices come from those within the scientific community frightened by the "corporatization" of research.

Ouch. Did I come across that way? If so, it was not intended. I agree that there neeeds to be a blend of both.