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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDecline in U.S. science spending threatens economy, security: MIT
(Reuters) - Warning of an "innovation deficit," scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say declining government spending on basic research is holding back potentially life-saving advances in 15 fields, from robotics and fusion energy to Alzheimer's disease and agriculture.
Science funding is "the lowest it has been since the Second World War as a fraction of the federal budget," said MIT physicist Marc Kastner, who led the committee that wrote "The Future Postponed" report, issued on Monday. "This really threatens America's future."
The report lands at a time when federal spending on research has become unusually politicized.
Cuts mandated by the White House's and Congress's failure to reach agreement on reducing the federal deficit have chipped away at the budgets of the National Institutes of Health and other science agencies; legislation on research spending is tied up in debates over, among other things, climate change.
more...http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/27/us-usa-science-spending-idUSKBN0NI08620150427
Science funding is "the lowest it has been since the Second World War as a fraction of the federal budget," said MIT physicist Marc Kastner, who led the committee that wrote "The Future Postponed" report, issued on Monday. "This really threatens America's future."
The report lands at a time when federal spending on research has become unusually politicized.
Cuts mandated by the White House's and Congress's failure to reach agreement on reducing the federal deficit have chipped away at the budgets of the National Institutes of Health and other science agencies; legislation on research spending is tied up in debates over, among other things, climate change.
more...http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/27/us-usa-science-spending-idUSKBN0NI08620150427
I know someone who is moving to Australia to work in her field - stem cell research.
Cuz in Murica that makes the baby Jesus cry.
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Decline in U.S. science spending threatens economy, security: MIT (Original Post)
progressoid
Apr 2015
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Johonny
(20,878 posts)1. There is no future cost to austerity...
except mortgaging away the future,
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)2. Scientific illiteracy is growing..
We see examples of that here almost daily.
Sid
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)3. don't forget cutting the education budgets every where.