By: Dr. Kaplan

Dr. Kaplan — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:01:22 +0000

You think this was a waste of money? This research has practical value. There are people that have spent lifetimes in universities trying to prove that 1+1 ≠ 2.
Swift describes how scientists can waste time and money in Gulliver’s Travels: “The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face, his hair and beard long, ragged, and singed in several places. His clothes, shirt, and skin, were all of the same colour. He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. He told me, he did not doubt, that, in eight years more, he should be able to supply the governor’s gardens with sunshine, at a reasonable rate: but he complained that his stock was low, and entreated me “to give him something as an encouragement to ingenuity, especially since this had been a very dear season for cucumbers.” I made him a small present, for my lord had furnished me with money on purpose, because he knew their practice of begging from all who go to see them.”
Clearly the main thing that money should not be wasted on is research into CAM because we KNOW homeopathy can’t possibly work.

By: paul

paul — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:20:41 +0000

So how much did this research into the bleedin obvious cost us Taxpayers? Still it is reassuring to know that some group of scientists are now less stressed having managed to secure funding into an area that my granny could have probably informed them of the outcome. Hurrah

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