[TimorousBestie]

Is it really subjective, at this point? I could understand someone arguing this in 2015, but now?

The Trump administration drastically cut the budget of basically every govt agency that does or supports scientific research and decimated staffing. Is that not an objective fact? Is there some alternative one?

[brianmurphy]

Across the board budget cuts say nothing about supporting the scientific method. These university could easily fund their projects out of their massive multi-billion dollar endowments. We should ask why they aren't.

[TimorousBestie]

> Across the board budget cuts say nothing about supporting the scientific method.

Semantic nihilism. It’s a basic fact of political science that governments enact policies in order to achieve outcomes. Or if you prefer cybernetics, there’s always Stafford Beer: “The purpose of a system is what is does.”