[ RadSafe ] political funding ofscience/ was:Radon:POWERFULLY associated with LESS lungcancer by B.Cohen

[Brennan, Mike (DOH)]

And find out that the equipment needed to measure that smell can be used
in quality control of a chemical process to make super strong material.


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[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Glenn R.
Marshall
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Who but the federal government would spend money studying what sort of
smells are most likely to get a female Antarctic doodlebug "in the
mood"?  

Glenn Marshall


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And venture capitalists are welcome to the fruits of their investments.
But there are projects too big for them, such as the Space Program (yes,
I know there are now private companies trying to, and even succeeding in
getting packages into space.  But do you think the would be there if it
weren't for the knowledge and infrastructure paid for by the US
taxpayers (whose return on investment has been huge)).  Also, venture
capitalists tend to want to keep the secrets their money helped uncover
secret.  The chance for spin-offs is much less.  

More often than not, private money supports research into technology.
Often technology made possible by research into science paid for by
public money.

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[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Brian Riely
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Real science creates a lot of wealth and a lot of the wealth that it
creates is obvious.  The problem is that you do not know before hand
which science will produce the wealth.  That is why Venture Capitalist
create a portfolio with the assumption that the one success story will
pay for the other 9 failures.