Re: Variety announces "Shattered Union" by JMS/Bruckheimer

In article <QwHJm.8358$_b5.5662@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Greg Hennessy <greg.hennessy@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2009-11-08, Kurt Ullman <kurtullman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That is a question I have never gotten a good answer for. Why are the
oil companies suspect by government studies (largely driven by politics)
not? When we the last time that government funded a studied that might
have anti_GW hypothesis.

Government grants are in many if not most cases given out on basis of
peer review, not politics. Oil company grants are for what the oil
company perceives as its own best interest.

nonsense. The funding of the grants from Congress is very much a
political function. So is the granting. You have to give the money for
research that the Congress said you could. There are a whole bunch of
interesting studies showing the pretty much complete divorce of research
spending from the Institutes of Health (my area of interest) and number
of people with the disease, spending on treatment of the disease,
quality of life years, etc.
There is also a couple of interesting studies showing the increases
in NIH funding to a given disease before and after an celebrity or major
figure coming down the disease.


Why do you think proposals for funding have either pro or anti GW
hypotheses? If you know the results before the study is done you
aren't doing research.
Nonsense, part two. You have to outline what your hypothesis is
and what you think you are going to find. Then you go about finding out
if your hypothesis is right or wrong. To do otherwise is to come to the
provider of funding and saying I want money to do research. I know
bunches of academic medical centers types who wish that their grant
applications could be done on a post it note (g).

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and the phones don't ring at all.
If once, you've slept on an island.
Scott Kirby "If once you've slept on an island"


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