
Funding research for economic return sounds good - but that's not how science really works


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The announcement by Science Minister Judith Collins this week that half of New Zealand's sole fund for fundamental science will now go to research with economic benefits - with social sciences and the humanities no longer supported - came as a shock to many.

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