[DanielBMarkham]

I had to downmod you, sorry.

Most scientific advances have been made in the last century, nay the last fifty years. The pace is exponentially accelerating. That means, unfortunately for your case, that most advances have been made under modern goverments, i.e., democracies (or rather democratic republics)

Then you kind of went on a tear about old people mucking in things which they don't understand, which I have no idea what you are talking about -- funding of research? Selection of who gets grant money? Retirement home members playing WoW?

Sorry for the downmod, but posts that do not parse and are obviously false should go further down the list. I'd give you one or the other, but not both.