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minus-squareGorillatactics [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·1 year agoSo dollar for dollar, are all those colliders worth their value over say extra tenure position for scientists?
minus-squarefossilesque@mander.xyzOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 year agoThe colliders wouldn’t exist without people in the tenured position. Tenure is protection from capital interests. It’s not just a culture war thing.
minus-squareGorillatactics [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoI’m asking if the capital interest skew public research towards mega projects.
minus-squarefossilesque@mander.xyzOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoYea, that is a problem just by the fact that it creates more pots of funding.
minus-squarecrackajack@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoPerhaps, but we’d benefit more as a collective knowing the secrets of the cosmos.
So dollar for dollar, are all those colliders worth their value over say extra tenure position for scientists?
The colliders wouldn’t exist without people in the tenured position. Tenure is protection from capital interests. It’s not just a culture war thing.
I’m asking if the capital interest skew public research towards mega projects.
Yea, that is a problem just by the fact that it creates more pots of funding.
Perhaps, but we’d benefit more as a collective knowing the secrets of the cosmos.