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Is Science Reaching Its Limits? — John Horgan

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Importance of Scientific Research

The United States spends about a trillion dollars every year on defense. The older I've gotten, the more sensitive I've become to spending on pure science when social programs are really underfunded and some people don't have adequate health care and education. "I think it can be solved to an extent if we figure out how to cut back our enormously wasteful and immoral defense spending," he says.

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