[exDemMom]

Your funding says everything to me, no offense, the first three have no agenda? We all start with a premise, a theorem, a question and then go on to to do the five steps. Just sayin’. Sorry you don’t like what I am speculating on, but I feel strongly about this, CA in the seventies was a hotbed of environmental b/s.

My funding says that I chose a particular type of research, and those agencies fund that kind of research. If I had wanted to do a different kind of research, I would have been funded by other agencies. The funding agencies only care that you are productive. Well, and that you spend the money they give you for the purposes you said you want it for. *No* funding source can tell a scientist that they will produce certain results--because that cannot be done. It's like the story of Rumpelstiltskin, where the girl is told to spin straw into gold or be executed--she had the strongest motive in the world to make gold, but she still couldn't do it because it was physically impossible.

Also, funding agencies do not go find scientists and tell them what to work on and what kinds of results to produce. Rather, scientists decide what they want to research, and then identify sources who will fund their research.

[acapesket]

I pray that your fellow scientists have as much integrity as you have.

I am not confident in that prayer, sad to say.