Lerner wrote: Right you are. But the solution is to make the research funds adequate, then there is no cutthroat competition for them. There was a far better climate among physicists when it took 2 grant proposals to get a grant then today when it takes 20. So what we need is a great expansion of government-fudned research. The money there if we, say, stop useless wars and take back the bank bailout to name just a couple of examples.
Considering the billyuns going down the ITER and Tokamak ratholes, the quantity of money is not the problem. It’s what they’re trying to buy. Big Science provides it. Little Science (including LPP/FFS) does not.
