Because our (US) current priorities fuel a worldwide arms race, while real investment in basic sciences would benefit humanity and keep postdocs from starving. The entire NIH budget for everything is $47 billion, while the Department of Defense budget is $825 billion, $145 billion of which for R&D. You think we should be spending $100 billion per year more on killing people than on making people’s lives better?
Are you really upset that the term “science” includes even things we might personally find upsetting?
Yes
Why though
Because our (US) current priorities fuel a worldwide arms race, while real investment in basic sciences would benefit humanity and keep postdocs from starving. The entire NIH budget for everything is $47 billion, while the Department of Defense budget is $825 billion, $145 billion of which for R&D. You think we should be spending $100 billion per year more on killing people than on making people’s lives better?
I don’t know what you imagine I was saying, I was just trying to say that a lot of that is science.
All I’m saying is that postdocs shouldn’t be living below the poverty line with a side of stop killing people.