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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @south_korea_ln 25 Oct \ parent \ on: War, Taxes, and the National Science Foundation science
Yeah, condensed matter is not really political. There is no orthodoxy to challenge. A material either superconducts or doesn't. You can conclusively prove it1. That's very different from climate science, let's say.

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  1. well, this is maybe the one example where we have some controversy, but what's science without a few scammers2 to make fun of. ↩
  2. Jan Hendrik Schon, I did enjoy going down your rabbit hole of scams ↩
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 25 Oct
A material either superconducts or doesn't.
In econ, our version of this is "A transaction is either voluntary or it isn't." We know that voluntary transactions are welfare enhancing (in expectation and subject to some other caveats), while involuntary transactions are not welfare enhancing (again, subject to a bunch of caveats and clarifications).
That's where the absolutist and seemingly extreme views on this stuff come from. Government funded anything is involuntary and therefor unlikely to be welfare enhancing.
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