Why funding "silly" science research leads to billion-dollar breakthroughs

Scientific research in the United States is under attack. In some ways, science is an easy mark in a country that is increasingly anti-science and anti-intellectual. Marine conservation biologist Dr. David Shiffman, author of Why Sharks Matter, has penned an important piece in American Scientist about the importance of public funding for science, even, or perhaps especially, the 'silly' stuff. — Read the rest
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