> This is antithetical to science. If you're promising a breakthrough discovery, you're approaching the experiment with bias.
Whether to build something expensive isn't a scientific question, it's a political one.
To take an example to the extreme, if it were just about science, science might decide to convert the entire mass of the Earth into a particle collider and kill us all in the process.
> Whether to build something expensive isn't a scientific question, it's a political one.
Well, if you're building something expensive with the intent to perform science, one would hope that the political answer to this would be informed by science.
> To take an example to the extreme, if it were just about science, science might decide to convert the entire mass of the Earth into a particle collider and kill us all in the process.
Whether to build something expensive isn't a scientific question, it's a political one.
To take an example to the extreme, if it were just about science, science might decide to convert the entire mass of the Earth into a particle collider and kill us all in the process.