"[I]n the end, it all comes back to the fact that the government cares more about defense and entitlements than it does about breakthroughs to secure the future. Does that look like a country that 'fucking loves science,' to you? That looks like a country that kind of likes pretty space pictures and fluorescent brains, but doesn’t actually give two shits about scientists or about the process of science. That looks like a country that would prefer to have very pointy sticks over things like curing cancer, solving the obesity crisis, improving energy efficiency, fighting global warming, and going to space. And I’m supposed to believe that you 'love science?' No, what you love is social security, high-tech fighter aircraft, and bombing the Middle East so that it stays in the stone age where the government has assured you it belongs. If you loved science, you’d be voting based on candidates who want to increase funding for it. You’d be making it an issue that actually gets debated in the media, that sees equal time with the wars we fight and the bills we pay our aging workforce. These other things are priorities too, but if you think that science comes after these things, you’re dead wrong: science is the reason we’ve gotten so damned good at these things." http://www.johnskylar.com/post/61507282912/why-you-dont-fucking-love-science

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