https://example.com/tags/basic-research/ Recent content in Basic Research on James Colliander Hugo -- gohugo.io en © Copyright 2020 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://example.com/post/2012-04-12-misaligned-incentives-in-canadian-science-policy/ Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://example.com/post/2012-04-12-misaligned-incentives-in-canadian-science-policy/ Budget 2012 continues to shift Canadian federal investment away from basic research toward industrial applied research. This shift is politically expedient: the redirection of funds can be discussed with tantalizing justifications based on job creation, targeted investment, streamlining discovery, and so forth. The shift resonates with a public concerned about frivolous expenditures of dollars collected through taxation. The late Senator from Wisconsin, William Proxmire, advanced this line of political rhetoric by issuing Golden Fleece Awards for science projects he lampooned as unworthy of government investment.