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oe · 01-05-2002, 09:08 AM

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Originally posted by jayh:

As far as what has not yet been investigated... we have no way to know what we're missing, but certainly we are missing more than we are finding. That's the nature of knowledge.

I'm talking not about undiscovered fields, but about work that researchers know needs doing, for which they can't acquire the necessary funds.

i.e. cancer research and brain research

isaac42 · 01-05-2002, 11:05 AM

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Originally posted by Shone:


I'm talking not about undiscovered fields, but about work that researchers know needs doing, for which they can't acquire the necessary funds.

i.e. cancer research and brain research

You seriously believe that no one is funding cancer research?

What, exactly, do you mean by "brain research"?

Isaac

oe · 01-05-2002, 01:54 PM

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Originally posted by isaac42:


You seriously believe that no one is funding cancer research?

What, exactly, do you mean by "brain research"?

For what it's worth, "brain research" referred to the neurosciences, but I'm getting in over my head with those examples. What's more, I got distracted from my intent in starting this thread--to drum up remarks on the *prevalence* of nonscience agents in the research funding process.

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