NDT on Trump's "Space Force"

[Yonadav]

Anything can be abused by wealth and power. But scientific method itself is a tool. 

There is still a huge difference between science being used by friend or foe to be used to make weapons, even chemical weapons to kill others, and corporate science used to attract shareholders, such as big pharma. And the separate ethic of say a neutral scientist merely making observations, like an astrophysicist, or "Doctors without boarders". 

Big oil has bullied the planet's governments and even used propaganda masked as "science" to protect the industry's profits when REAL scientists are sounding the alarm of global warming.

Also scientists are generally people who actually care about the world and who prefer to educate themselves rather than stay ignorant. After all, you don't become a scientist to get rich but for the love of knowledge. Generally to achieve something useful.

American tax payers are the biggest funders of R&D on the planet. An awful lot of the scientists who are working on government funded R&D are doing so with the intention of patenting their discoveries and making many millions of dollars. Defense contractors all have their roots in government funded R&D. The internet, computers, and cellphones all came out of government funded R&D. Scientists working with government funding develop new drugs in university labs, patent them, and then go on to make millions of dollars off of their government funded research.

Don't get me wrong. I love scientists. I love research and development. But in America our socialized costs for private profits monster is completely out of control. Our scientists live on welfare while doing research, and then bilk us for many millions when they make profitable discoveries that were paid for by us.