Twenty years ago I reviewed the academic literature on the social return to government-funded research, and found it to be one of the most biased I have ever seen; the clear agenda was to lobby for more research money. I just went looking for more recent developments and found
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.
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.
The “Give Us More Money” Bias
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
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.
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
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.