Global warming?

[Fair&Balanced]

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.

Meaning no disrespect, but why not discuss it publicly?

I dont think it would be sniping to ask you to explain this further:

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.

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.