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>>>Good language for a short proposal to obtain more grant funds

The ultimate, inescapable, and inevitable booogeyman someone throws into nearly all FR science threads. “Grants”.

I guess that which must be paid for is invalid. Just because.

I have no problem with grants. They are an obvious necessity if we want to support science, which I do. The problem isn’t with the grants themselves but with the process by which they are awarded. There is bias in the process that hurts scientific pursuit and “String Theory” is one of those popular buzzwords that helps you get funding. “Climate Change” is another. “Global Warming” used to work but it has fallen out favor (LOL).

BTW, the fundamental thesis propounded by the Leftwingtards when it comes to medicine or drugs is that if safety and efficacy studies were done by private parties they must necessarily be invalid ~ because those studies were paid for with private funds.

Now, flip that on its head and we find that grants frequently come from private sources (foundations are private), and even if they come from the government the money used to be in private hands.

Just following Leftwingtard logic anything requiring work which is paid for is invalid because it's not free.

Not saying the Leftwingtard logic is valid or useful, just that it is what it is.

As I was just noting to another Freeper into "tp" (Theoretical Physics or Toilet Papering?) many folks in that field are ignorant of current events, and the ebb and flow of criticism of scientific studies due to the source of the funding paying the scientists (or grad students) to do the work is definitely current events.

Gotta' keep up on this stuff you know, particularly when everyone of every political orientation thinks scientists should be independent of coercive thought due to funding!