President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered his goodnight address to the nation on January 17, 1961. Eisenhower warned the state of the growing influence of a “military-industrial complex” in a statement made on national broadcast. He was correct about some of the risks the military-industrial challenging posed, but he missed some of the advantages or drawbacks.
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The” National Security Establishment” would make a more exact description of the issue overall. This includes businesses, labor unions, it businesses, think tank, activists, the media, the Pentagon conference in Congress, and the establishment for research and development.  ,
Eisenhower issued yet another distinct warning in his speech.
Eisenhower remarked,” The power of wealth and national work project allocations have always given the nation’s scholars a head start.”
Eisenhower warned that” the lone inventor, tinkering in his factory, has been overshadowed by task forces of experts in facilities and testing areas.” A federal contract “practically replaces academic curiosity” due to the high costs involved.
Eisenhower was no denying the importance of science to the United States ‘ regional security. He also wasn’t advocating that the government doesn’t be providing any kind of funding for science. Eisenhower was concerned that excessive government funding was travestying medical research, putting more emphasis on the objectives of the national government.
Eisenhower had it correctly. When Ernest Rutherford, an astrophysicist by day and working from a country property in England with a few graduate individuals, may solve the mysteries of the atom’s structure or Clyde Tombaugh, an astronomer, who watched from the camera at Lowell Observatory at night and compared pictures of the sky to find Pluto, the days are long gone.  ,
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We have some of the best technology, says Terence Kealey, a critic of government revenue and a professor of clinical physiology at the University of Buckingham, “if you look at, especially, 19th century Britain,” when technology was completely in the private market.
It comes from the wealthy’s money. Charles Darwin was wealthy. In some cases, even [scientists ] who had no money had access to wealthy men’s money. The wealthy financed knowledge.
The wealthy had undoubtedly absorb a large portion of the government’s funding cuts. The wealthy wouldn’t support a lot of the ridiculous research being done now with tax dollars as an added benefit.
Beyond the cash, there is the way the general public views science and scientists. The argument over culture change is a perfect illustration. There is no “debate,” at least nothing that merits discussion. Other perspectives are utterly silenced.
More importantly, researchers are discredited and punished for their errors. If “scientific elites” had been dominant in the discussion and absorbing the majority of the funding for research, it would have been much the same as Eisenhower’s reminder that “scientific leaders” would have been subjected to the same kind of ostracization.  ,
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The idea that the government needs to spur technological progress was derived from World War II, when federal funding for research led to innovations in spaceships, medicine, and radar. More than half a million people were employed by the Manhattan Project, which cost$ 27 billion in today’s money, culminating in the identification of nuclear fission and the atomic bomb.
” Lobbyists took the Manhattan Project and said,” Look what government funding of science can do,” according to Kealey. They then twisted it.” He acknowledges that the government has the authority to carry out “mission-based” medical projects, such as bomb-strikes, but he contends that this is fundamentally different from the broad condition funding of “basic study” that came after.  ,
The Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite in place, was what ultimately gave a great boost to government-funded clinical studies. The feat panicked the scientific establishment and assisted them in making a case for significant government investment in science.  ,
The course of history was altered by the astronomical breakthroughs mentioned above. However, there have also been some significant government-funded initiatives that are exposing some of the mysteries of the cosmos, such as the development of the atomic bomb, medical breakthroughs in gene and cellular therapies, and others.
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In scientific research, there is a role for the government. The wealthy and large corporations are unable to finance all the projects that are essential to the advancement of civilization. Scientists should be forced to make wise decisions about the types of research that are conducted because less money is being spent on research.
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