At Los Alamos, blogging their discontent

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A blog rebellion among scientists and engineers at the nuclear-weapons lab threatens to end the tenure of its director.
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Non-profits (eg. a university) - yes; for-profits - no...
by STS May 3, 2005 10:58 AM PDT: I don't know about anyone else, but I have a major problem with for-profit companies running government funded research organizations. The idea that a for-profit company can take taxpayer-funded research and then charge the taxpayers and government for the resultant technologies is flat-out wrong. Not to mention them possibly taking such technologies out of the country so people who didn't even pay for the research get to benefit from it AND become job competitors. (UGH!)

At least with a university running the lab, there is the related benefit of desperately needed education and research opportunities for the country's future technologists.

Private businesses (with only a very few exceptions, (eg. IBM)) have shown themselves to be woefully incompetent when conducting basic research. Let's keep the organizations that are chartered with education, research, and even imagination in charge, and keep the profit motive and cost cutting for-profits out of this.

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