SCOTT TURNER: America Spent More Than $1 Trillion On Science For Nothing
1 sourceUpdated Jul 1, 2026
In 1950, the United States government decided that it would henceforth be the primary funder of university research, in the hope this would usher in a new age of scientific discovery. This radical experiment has now run…
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