Comments on: The Forgotten Oceans Of Earth http://www.sciscoop.com/2004-3-7-18266-80101.html Scooping up science news and dropping it on your desk Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:03:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: OpieTaylor http://www.sciscoop.com/2004-3-7-18266-80101.html/comment-page-1#comment-2158 OpieTaylor Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:34:39 +0000 http://localhost/~arielschwartz/wordpress/sciscoop/?p=1873#comment-2158 >>"So what if there is water up there?" says sociologist Amitai Etzioni .... "What difference does it make to anyone's life? Will it grow any more food? Cure a disease? This doesn't even broaden our horizons." <p> So, Dr. Etzioi, when's the last time sociology cured any diseases? Grew food? If this was the standard by which public funding of research was held, then there'd be a lot of highly-opinionated social scientists out of work.... <p> And trotting out the NOAA budget figures doesn't tell you anything about the extent of oceanography research, since that is also done by NSF and ONR. <p> SciScoop should filter out articles that are such blatant politiking. >>”So what if there is water up there?” says sociologist Amitai Etzioni …. “What difference does it make to anyone’s life? Will it grow any more food? Cure a disease? This doesn’t even broaden our horizons.”

So, Dr. Etzioi, when’s the last time sociology cured any diseases? Grew food? If this was the standard by which public funding of research was held, then there’d be a lot of highly-opinionated social scientists out of work….

And trotting out the NOAA budget figures doesn’t tell you anything about the extent of oceanography research, since that is also done by NSF and ONR.

SciScoop should filter out articles that are such blatant politiking.

]]> By: Drog http://www.sciscoop.com/2004-3-7-18266-80101.html/comment-page-1#comment-1076 Drog Sun, 07 Mar 2004 18:23:49 +0000 http://localhost/~arielschwartz/wordpress/sciscoop/?p=1873#comment-1076 This story made me suddenly realize that we need an Oceanography topic! I'll get to work on that. This story made me suddenly realize that we need an Oceanography topic! I’ll get to work on that.

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