Most scientists are scam artists

Sure there's a small percentage of scientists that actually drives research forward.  But most scientists are involved in unimportant, piecemeal research that only tenuously drives the field forward.  They're just in it for the grant money - yeah it's not much but they take home 40k - 80k and everyone's happy.

Scrap universties; give tax incentives towards biotech, chemical, engineering research companies.

Problem solved.

Agreed, OP.

Way to state the obvious, OP.

But that's the way it is with EVERYTHING, not just science. Most people are just trying to scam everyone else out of a paycheck doing shit they don't care about or even hate.

I've known teachers who hate kids, cops who have no respect for the law, etc, etc, etc. That's life, for a majority of people, sadly.

Oh and on a related note, contractors and government employees are FAR worse. 90% of the work gets done by 10% of the people. Seriously.

My paycheck goes through SIX agencies who all take a cut and only two of them actually do any work. Let me say that again to be perfectly clear. There are four agencies in the chain that do NOTHING. They basically took the contract and turned around and hired another cheaper company to do everything they were supposed to do. It's ridiculous. If we got rid of those faggots, I'd be making literally THREE TIMES AS MUCH (or, alternatively, the TAX FUNDED project could be a shit load cheaper... or a lot cheaper and I still make a lot more...).

>>5
Do tell us moar.  Defense contracts?  Construction contracts?

>>5

Yeah this sounds about right. The sad thing is that everything is already so corrupted that you can't kill this kind of shit without harming the innocent.

What makes it even worse is that when you've got four, five, six layers of management, all trying to control the project, you're going to have serious problems. Usually, it starts out okay, maybe a bit of confusion over logistics or whatever. But after the first week or two, it inevitably degenerates into a total clusterfuck. It isn't uncommon for me to be told "just call it an early day, hopefully this shit will be taken care of by tomorrow morning".

You're right. Like that time Hawking came up to me and said "hey, why don't you pay me a billion dollars, and then I will give you two billions?" and I said "naaah, I don't have a billion dollars", but my friend had this sum and gave it to Hawking and he just ran away to European island or Australia or sometihng.

>>9

Well, he originally presides in Europe, so I'm not sure he went there. And Australia is boring. Nobody goes to Australia. I bet he used it to fund his own particle accelerator.

>>10
Do you mean "resides"?

No.

gotta put food on the table somehow.

dont be such a bitch

>>11
Stephen Hawking is the president of Europe.