[rtkwe]

It's the thing people don't get when they see odd studies being funded and try to judge if they're worthy of being funded. Either it's just they don't understand where the study fits into a larger problem or simply that esoteric studies sometimes leads to surprising findings that are far more useful than anyone could reasonable predict.

[dooglius]

It would be instructive to actually look at the studies in question and whether or not they were odd or esoteric.

[finghin]

It’s probably more