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2020-01-31 Science & Technology

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Posted by Gleretle Flelet6930 2020-01-31 12:06|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Thoughtful and thought provoking.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-01-31 13:39|| 2020-01-31 13:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Nut grafs:

If we are to successfully launch urgent R&D efforts toward strategically important innovation today, we must re-create the conditions for success Those do not, as a rule, exist in our current academic and federal bureaucracies, which are not driven by urgent, focused existential challenges that come close to those that motivated the Apollo and SDI programs.

What is needed is twofold. First, several key research foci must be identified as having just that degree of difficult but urgent importance for us as a country. And second, we must create organizational and funding spaces where a small group of highly skilled and motivated researchers can address them. Those most likely will need to be at least semi-independent from existing academic and federal bureaucracies if they are to succeed..

Concomitant with the above is the need to end (or in some cases, head off) the wokification of STEM that is becoming a major issue.

If the effort to make SJW goals paramount within STEM succeeds, we can forget about having "a small group of highly skilled and motivated researchers"if they also fail to check all the intersectionality boxes.

While it might be hypothetically possible to satisfy both imperatives in a few cases here and there, what are the odds that it can be done for the many small groups that we'll likely need for every one of these efforts?

Posted by charger 2020-01-31 16:09|| 2020-01-31 16:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Wokeness needs to be put to sleep.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-01-31 20:59|| 2020-01-31 20:59|| Front Page Top

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