Jed Rothwell wrote:
> Perhaps, as Schwinger predicted, this will be the > death of science. Science is at a low point, and > no one can say when, or if, it will recover. But > I expect it will. Valuable, vital institutions > seldom collapse completely. Usually after they > reach an dysfunctional extreme, a crisis occurs, > and then the problems are fixed. > Sometimes new institutions will emerge, because the existing institutions simply can't undergo the needed reforms without collapsing. Harry

