The path of action is open to all, Phillip. You can choose to read the papers available, and work the field. If you feel for some reason unable to do this, you can contribute monetarily to one of the many projects ongoing in the field.
The best person to answer your question is yourself. Because that's all there is. There is no government. There is no industry. There is no academia. There is only the person who asks and answers the question. K. -----Original Message----- From: Philip Winestone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 11:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ReRe: Alliance for NanoHealth, Dr. Mauro Ferrari 'Morning Richard, My question still stands: "Why?" Why is it necessary to have teams of lobbyists to promote action on energy when it's all too obvious that many avenues have to be explored in depth; avenues that have demonstrated at least some initial promise? And it's really not an either/or situation. It doesn't take substantial sums of money (in government terms) to put a variety of energy research projects on a sound footing, including (or perhaps, especially) CF. Heavens! If, over the past 17 years, CF researchers have come up with some great, but as yet unfinished, information, working on a shoestring, think of what they could do if they had some reasonable level of consistent funding. This scenario isn't rocket science. What do we pay our government geniuses for (yours and mine), if not to take hard looks at the world around us, and make good (not necessarily perfect) decisions based on needs, not simply schmoozing? Any such research should be ongoing, and should continue even after, at some not-too-distant point, the results are handed over to industry to do what industry does best: make practical, profit-making applications. I'll get off my soap-box now. Philip. At 07:28 PM 4/16/2006 -0500, you wrote: Philip wrote.. "The indication for a steady increase in research funding is apparent across all science, except CF" >And at this critical point in time, one wonders why (without, of course, >delving into conspiracy theories)... Howdy Philip, The article goes on the describe Dr. Ferrari as being a "charismatic scholar" and he is the author of the NCI $144 mil initiative. In Texan speak, that means he was the guy that hustled up the money from Uncle Sugar via NCI. The problem facing the CF initiative is the lack of a presence in D.C. The way the game is played, the money comes from Uncle Sugar, some is diverted to lobbyists that go back to the feed trough for more.. etc. We have a merry go round and we wind up watching the government fund the organizations that lobby. Tom DeLay was a piker. The CF people either pony up some serious money for lobbyists to start the circle.. or keep standing outside looking in the windows of the candy store. Richard
