{"id":400,"date":"2007-07-08T22:56:54","date_gmt":"2007-07-08T22:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/taomph\/?p=400"},"modified":"2007-07-08T22:56:54","modified_gmt":"2007-07-08T22:56:54","slug":"test-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2007\/07\/08\/test-43\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Funding of Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight on &#8220;Tech Nation&#8221;, Dr. Moira Gunn spoke with the Chairman and CEO of Invitrogen, Greg Lucier [1]. Mr. Lucier spent his time speaking out about the importance of public funding of science. Despite his position in a private company, he advocated that more public money needs to be spent to do science, and create the next generation of scientists. It was a short, but good, discussion. At the end, he said it would be wise to call your Congressperson, introduce yourself, and in less than a minute ask them to support public funding of science. Of course, he was focused on biotech, and decried the dropping NIH budget. While his argument was a good one &#8211; you doubled the budget, trained all these people, and now they can&#8217;t get grants as the budget declines &#8211; I was miffed that he didn&#8217;t mention the fact that the NIH budget is the kind that chemists, physicists, and mathematicians only dream about (even at its declined levels). We shouldn&#8217;t beat each other up for the same pie, but it would behoove us to find a way to make that pie bigger.<\/p>\n<p>[1] <a href=\"http:\/\/technation.com\/\">http:\/\/technation.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight on &#8220;Tech Nation&#8221;, Dr. Moira Gunn spoke with the Chairman and CEO of Invitrogen, Greg Lucier [1]. Mr. Lucier spent his time speaking out about the importance of public funding of science. Despite his position in a private company, he advocated that more public money needs to be spent to do science, and create [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"category-science","8":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}