• Dadifer@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Problem solved then! Everyone just needs to do killing people science in order to make a living.

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      1 month ago

      Are you really upset that the term “science” includes even things we might personally find upsetting?

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            1 month ago

            Because our (US) current priorities fuel a worldwide arms race, while real investment in basic sciences would benefit humanity and keep postdocs from starving. The entire NIH budget for everything is $47 billion, while the Department of Defense budget is $825 billion, $145 billion of which for R&D. You think we should be spending $100 billion per year more on killing people than on making people’s lives better?

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              1 month ago

              I don’t know what you imagine I was saying, I was just trying to say that a lot of that is science.

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                1 month ago

                All I’m saying is that postdocs shouldn’t be living below the poverty line with a side of stop killing people.