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What ethical justification do you have for extracting tax money from people for purposes that do not yield them some greater benefit? You have to be able to say that the extra dollar spent on research will produce more than a dollar’s worth of benefit to the person from whom the dollar was taken. That is a hard proposition to establish in the case of science.

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Tallent, W.H. Research under pressure. Econ Bot 36, 4–11 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02858696

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