[ RadSafe ] political funding of science/ was:Radon: POWERFULLY associated with LESS lung cancer by B.Cohen

[Brian Riely]

The difference between an economic football and a political football is that
if it is not real science, there will be no economic return because it will
not work.  A private company could not survive if it put it put its
resources in developing a perpetual motion machine.  On the hand, political
footballs are agenda driven and it does not matter if the science is real as
long as the money spent on the science generates votes from the public.

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[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Clayton J Bradt
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Subject: [ RadSafe ] political funding of science/ was:Radon: POWERFULLY
associated with LESS lung cancer by B.Cohen

Steve Dapra writes:


"The problem is that politics funds science, thus transmuting 
science into a political football.  Real science can raise its own 
funding.  It does not need to leech off the taxpayer."