Dear Stan, lists, S: The studies supported by society -- especially in science -- are often of longer term interest. SC is not a bugaboo, just a fact.
I think SC is no simple fact - rather it is a host of different things - from the (trivial) observation that universities and academies and labs are social institutions - and all the way to the (erroneous) supposition that the results of science are nothing but political claims in disguise, only serving to further professor carreers or to confirm prejudices of funding agencies or both ... The knowledge we generate reflects the interests of those who generate it. In many cases those interests are many, even contradictory - and, what is more, knowledge refelcts many other things than interests, so it seems less than serious to focus unilaterally upon that ... Best F
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