DailyDirt: Science Policies For The US

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We're generally interested in government policies that affect the discovery of information or the creation of new works. Usually this means we focus on copyright issues, but science policies are also important to us -- so here are just a few gov't policies that have been released. By the way, StumbleUpon can recommend some good Techdirt articles, too.
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    Anonymous Coward, 9 Nov 2011 @ 9:02pm

    hmm.

    It'll be interesting to see if there are any studies on the effect of letting scientists delay their grants to raise kids... and if this policy actually results in any measurable change in the scientific community.

    link to this | view in thread ]

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    abc gum, 10 Nov 2011 @ 6:19am

    "government policies that affect the discovery of information or the creation of new works."

    Maybe I'm just a pessimist, but my understanding of past government policies regarding science is that they have hindered more than helped scientific endeavors. I find it hard to believe anything has changed in this regard. The words put in writing seldom match the policy as implemented.

    link to this | view in thread ]

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    Michael Ho (profile), 10 Nov 2011 @ 2:01pm

    Re:

    The US gov't funds a pretty amazing array of research projects through the NIH and DARPA... so the gov't isn't hindering all aspects of science!

    link to this | view in thread ]


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