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mk · 4445 days ago · link · · parent · post: Cage life may drive lab animals so insane that experiments are invalid
The correlation between science populism and actual research is abysmal. If I could have the ears of the NSF and the NIH, I would chew them the fuck out. Every day incredible insights are made public, and what we get is "Maybe eating chocolate is good/bad for you again!"
It's a fucking travesty. Science funding and support for it could be twice its current rate with a solid 10-year campaign of getting results to the people. As as far as these particular findings? My guess is some bloke at the AP hasn't yet heard from a science-type pal that this stuff is really neat. It's a damn shame too. "Could crosswords cure colon cancer?" is a fucking clickthru goldmine. Sorry this stuff gets me going. EDIT: Holy shit, did you see that alliteration?! 5 c's! I swear that was unintentional.
One of these days, when I'm rich and powerful, I'm going to bid $100m for the rights to NASA TV.
And I'm going to fucking make space interesting rather than excruciating simply by pointing the camera in the right places and getting people who know how to talk to the public. And I'm going to be rich.