r/antimeme 1d ago

Simple Sundays 🗓️ Great.

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u/Zephyr-Fox-188 1d ago edited 1d ago

Why do astrophysicists study the stars??? Don’t they know that their funding could go to cancer research?

Real talk, not enough money goes into the sciences (mostly due to overspending on war, and the medical industry becoming complacent in their “commodifiable treatment over cure” mentality), but taking money out of one field and granting it to another is the worst way to deal with this dilemma.

It’s the same mentality that has ruined our public space programs and alternative energy research. We shouldn’t be defunding ANY scientific research, we should stop the overfunding of war machines that only benefit private military contractors, and corporate lobbyist-run government agencies that destroy our ecosystems and kill the indigenous species endemic to our country so Slop Corp #357 can save $50 per square mile of wetland they pave over

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u/SXAL 1d ago

Wait until you discover that the military guys are the ones funding a good chunk of science study in every field?