Politics by another means...

[N.Monks@xxxxxxxxx (Neale Monks)]

Dear All,

I'm sure that this is a heresy, but why should the Tax Payer (who is
already saddled with negative equity, rising education costs, no job
security...) pay for scientists to work on long-extinct groups of
microfossils, or KT boundaries, or even Ammonites?

Compared to a LOT of people out there, surely we have it pretty good? How
many of us ever take our science to the guy who's paying for it...Joe Q.
Public?

Yours,

Neale (Devil's Advocate at Large)



>From  Neale Monks' PowerBook, at...

Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD
Internet: N.Monks@nhm.ac.uk, Telephone: 0171-938-9007

"...now Nature is having the last laugh. The freaky stuff is turning out to
be the mathematics of the natural world"

from 'Arcadia', by Tom Stoppard