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Originally Posted by Undertoad
I have written a comprehensive reply, and anyone interested in substance over sniping can ask me for the URL for it via PM.
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Meaning no disrespect, but why not discuss it publicly?
I dont think it would be sniping to ask you to explain this further:
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Originally Posted by Undertoad
...Even by the 50s, government involvement in R&D was so unlikely that the March of Dimes was actually founded by FDR, but remained 100% privately funded as it solved the problem of Polio. Not one of those dimes came from government. They came from people giving dimes. That's just how it was.
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Given that from the 1950s through the 1970s, the federal government funded more than 50% of R&D annually.
I think that is substantive and not sniping as is the fact that the total US R&D as percent of GDP has been flat for the last 20 years while Japan, Korea, and to a lesser extent Germany and even China (starting very far behind) are all increasing R&D spending as percent of GDP.
