In reply to Michel Jullian's message of Wed, 30 May 2007 12:35:01 +0200: Hi, [snip] > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Jed Rothwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <vortex-L@eskimo.com> >Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 11:24 PM >Subject: [Vo]:Should Congress support cold fusion? I vote no! > > >... >> But, by the same standard, I >> suppose 1% of the public believes in perpetual motion machines such >> as the one Joe Newman claims he has. I would not want to see the >> government spend research money on that sort of thing. Some polls >> indicate that half of the public believes in creationism instead of >> evolution, but I would not want to see government money spent on >> creationism. (I suspect these polls exaggerate the support for creationism.) > >You're right Jed, the public believes in many silly things, so why the hell do >you want to rely on them to decide which research should be publicly funded?
...because the public believes in many silly things...and some silly things only turn out not to be silly after the research has been funded. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk The shrub is a plant.
