Should Science Funding Remain A Meritocracy Or Is It Time For More Economic Redistribution?
Thursday, May 22, 2014 - 18:40
in Psychology & Sociology
There are growing inequalities in health and wealth among Americans, a gap between "haves" and "have-nots" that has become obvious as the American middle class has been decimated in the ongoing recession, but that gap is no different in academic science. More and more academic scientists are competing for a pool of money that is not growing as fast as the pool of PhDs who want to stay in academia is. While scientists in academia are overwhelmingly liberal, when it comes to science funding they are fans of capitalism - the best researchers should receive the most money and if universities acquire those best people, and that means $1 billion per year in NIH funding for Johns Hopkins, they have earned it. read more