On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Trent Shipley wrote: > 2) The Behavioral Sciences are economically and militarily useless. > > (Actually, a big part of the problem is that Behavioral Scientists and > Humanists are @#$% liberals and bleeding-hearts who make their research > economically and militarilly useless. For example they analyze how to > promote the welfare of the disadvantaged instead of how to exploit them more > effectively while keeping the disadvantaged politically quiet.) I'm surprised at you, Trent! Behavioral sciences are extremely well funded and are economically crucial. They just go under names like marketing, political science, and management theory. Marvin Long Well, speaking as someone who's applying to political science graduate school and wondering how on earth he's going to pay for it, I'd have to say that poli. sci., at least, is not well funded. In fact before 9/11 the Boston Globe ran an article on the "death of security studies" - my field - because no one was willing to give money to fund the study of warfare anymore. Apparently people thought it was irrelevant to the modern world. It is possible that this may, hopefully, be changing. I know that the first piece of humor I heard from anyone after the attacks was a professor who commented to me that they had probably improved our job prospects a lot. Gautam Mukunda
