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The fact that the first piece of expert adviceis to hire more experts and give them high-status positions has been known for millennia:

"Now let Pharaoh take a man discreet and wise and set him over the land of Egypt." --- Genesis 41:33

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Sorry to be somewhat off topic - but maybe this 'lobbying for state funding' aspect of research partly explains the liberal-left preponderance of academics - which (as Engram notes today at Back Talk - http://engram-backtalk.blog... infects all academic science that has political ramifications.

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The fact that the first piece of expert adviceis to hire more experts and give them high-status positions has been known for millennia:

"Now let Pharaoh take a man discreet and wise and set him over the land of Egypt." --- Genesis 41:33

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Sorry to be somewhat off topic - but maybe this 'lobbying for state funding' aspect of research partly explains the liberal-left preponderance of academics - which (as Engram notes today at Back Talk - http://engram-backtalk.blog... infects all academic science that has political ramifications.

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