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purplecthulhu at 05:32pm on 03/01/2008
purplecthulhu at 05:32pm on 03/01/2008Rumour has it that the cuts to astronomy and particle physics funding in the UK is deliberate on the part of government, and is part of a 'realignment' of UK science towards immediate wealth generation. In other words we're back to the Thatcherist attitude that short term research is all that we should do. Even the conservative party saw the error of this policy and gave up on it during Major's time as PM. That Brown should return to this discredited notion demonstrates just how intellectually bankrupt they are.
Get signing the petition and write to your MP. If you know any A-level science students get them to sign and especially write to their MP if they find astronomy and particle physics particularly stimulating. These are the subject areas that get people into the hard sciences, and we need more of them not fewer.
Who will invent the next MRI scanners and synchrotrons if we dump physics? Not anybody in the UK, that's for sure...
Get signing the petition and write to your MP. If you know any A-level science students get them to sign and especially write to their MP if they find astronomy and particle physics particularly stimulating. These are the subject areas that get people into the hard sciences, and we need more of them not fewer.
Who will invent the next MRI scanners and synchrotrons if we dump physics? Not anybody in the UK, that's for sure...
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