Soldato
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I don't like it either, it's nugatory research. Maybe if we left the EU we could fund proper, useful science - like finding a cure for cancer.
Again that research is absolutely nothing to do with the EU, so your point would be moot if you actually knew what research was useful and what isn't.
I can say that research is more useful than a lot of the stuff that hits the headlines and probably involved very little investment in terms of time and money.
I don't think you would know proper science if you subbed you tripped on it and it caused you to accelerate toward the ground.
How can you have the logic that leaving the eu would give us any more choice in what we fund?
We are free to fund what we like at the moment, leaving would have us lose an insane amount of funding requiring the UK gov to fill the gap, leaving even less money for funding research. The research is not decided by the EU, the team decides the research and can apply for funding or investment, it is then evaluated to see whether the investment is worth it. As far as research is concerned, we see no benefit at all from leaving.
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