[swatcoder]

Not all science is performed by way of academic research. Industry performs research too, and the best way to ground both biased industrial research and impractical/naive academic research is to have the two communities engaged as commingled peers, where both have standing in funding and process and are each obliged to provide justification and transparency to the other.

[ants_everywhere]

> impractical/naive academic research

I think this is a common confusion. You need impractical/naive research because that's how exploration gets done. If you heavily bias the search towards areas of the search space that you've already seen a lot then you've basically killed science and its ability to deliver useful results.

[imabotbeep2937]

The phrase "Eliminate corporations from academic research" does a lot of heavy lifting here.

If a company wants to bring a pesticide to market. We would like them to bear the brunt of safety research costs before they launch. You might say that product safety is different from pure academic research.

We're just arguing semantics and incentives at that point. Like giving them a tax break for that research. Sure that sucks. But how else shall we make it happen.