Richard Lindzen
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Whether that helps or not, maybe people don't care.
I think you're hitting on something important.
You can't do it every place.
But with the funding agencies...
The government is in a position to say funding agencies must take an open view of certain subjects, or all subjects for that matter, and not lay down rules that you cannot question.
Department of Energy tried to do both sides for a long time.
They held out longer than other departments.
But eventually, for some reason, they were all forced into the same box.
Money starts talking, baby.
Yeah.
I mean, it's interesting how it evolved.
I think in the 90s...
There was still a certain openness about it.
And if there were a conference, people on both sides would be invited and so on.
Somehow, by the 21st century, it came down hard.
There was absolutely nothing open anymore.
No, this was the political polarization.
I think it's worse in universities.
You know, I'll take something that was much less publicized.
What was the program called?