[Buddha-l] Wellcome Trust

[Richard Hayes]

On May 19, 2010, at 11:30 AM, Peter Friedlander wrote:

> However, for an organisation which is I imagine, it certainly was, almost infinitely rich it seemed, such a decision does seem very hard to justify.

"Wherever there is a large class of academic professors who are provided with good incomes and looked up to as gentlemen, scientific inquiry must languish. Wherever the bureaucrats are the more learned class, the case will be still worse." (Charles S. Peirce, "The Scientific Attitude and Fallibilism")

Everywhere, it seems, the enterprises of learning and research have been taken over by bureaucrats, who force the people who work for them to be bureaucrats as well. As a result, no matter where one looks these days, scientific inquiry and all forms of academic enterprise, are languishing.

Richard