Destroying The Link Between “R” And “D”

8 Replies to “Destroying The Link Between “R” And “D””

1. That is why the Soviets had the Lada.

2. Spontaneous development in the free market is dangerous. It might lead to inventions that are unacceptable to government planners. It’s not fair that ideology-driven technocrats have to compete with consumer-pleasing entrepreneurs.
   For example, look at how fracking has the potential to defeat the green revolution before it made business class environmentalists and politicians stinking rich and before completely impoverishing the rest of us (financially and liberty). Just think of the turmoil that might be caused by more advanced, cheaper nuclear technology (small nuclear reactors or thorium reactors, for example).
   Yikes! Do you know how hard it is to continually think up new global crises that are scary enough to keep people afraid and dependent on government to fix the problem? I am expecting another pandemic scare since it has been a couple of years since the last one.

3. 2 1/2 minutes is maybe too short a time to address this issue. He did not even mention the other side of the coin, that government becomes the sole financer of science: it then becomes political, raather than actual.

4. Ken, as you may know, Lada was a communist corrupted Fiat.
   What ever the communists put their hands on dies, it is as though it is the nature of things, almost natural death.

5. Lev, yes I know and you are right about whatever communists put their hands on dies. They are trying to get away from that in eastern Europe, but especially in Russia and the Ukraine it will take decades to put the Marxist monstrosity behind them. After all, these two countries, until the last two decades, experienced democracy for only a few months in 1917. My two visits there have given me hope that, aside from some bumps, they are making some progress in many areas.
   To think that there is a concerted effort in the western democracies to emulate the Soviet utopian world joy bringer experience.

6. But, but … gov’t university scientists are only interested in useful scientific research and development – right? Take for example, Order of Canada recipient, Dr David Suzuki. Ya, take him … away.

7. What ever the communists put their hands on dies, it is as though it is the nature of things, almost natural death.
   Thus explaining where Suzuki got the name of the show!

8. My swift summation of the soviet Union is that until stalin died they had never tried communism….it took from from ’53 until ’89 to figure out it just didn’t work.
   My atke on these watermelons is that it’s not so much they are marxist but are covert Stalinists…