Good thing we've been cutting science funding across the board! Doubt the NIH and NSF grants were helping science much anyway.<p>As a matter of fact, science should be privately funded and privately run. What idiot thought it was a good idea to make scientific research a government mandate?<p>To thy weary, I say: The market shall provide.<p>P.S. Yes, I am bitter about the current state of science. I've written about it in great detail before [1][2], but the current fascination with free-market everything has truly made me lose hope for this iteration of society. The free market will work, until it doesn't. Some activities which are absolutely crucial, will not be profitable until it's too late. Medical research is a good example, but there are others (energy sources to replace oil, overproduction of consumer waste, pollution etc.)<p>Seems like today's societies must learn by sticking their fingers in the proverbial wall socket. So be it.<p>1. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8337837" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8337837</a><p>2. <a href="https://hn.algolia.com/#!/comment/forever/prefix/0/by%3AFD3SA%20science" rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/#!/comment/forever/prefix/0/by%3AFD3S...</a>