{"id":1803,"date":"2008-01-21T13:48:06","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T20:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2008-01-21T13:48:06","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T20:48:06","slug":"craig-barrett-youre-subsidizing-the-wrong-seed-corn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/01\/21\/craig-barrett-youre-subsidizing-the-wrong-seed-corn\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Barrett: You&#039;re Subsidizing the Wrong Seed Corn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Barrett, the chairman of Intel has a scathing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/science\/article\/Flagging-economy-needs-science-investments-3297691.php\">op-ed<\/a> in the San Fransisco Chronicle on the recent spending omnibus and its effect on science funding (via Computing Research Policy Blog): <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What are they thinking? When will they wake up? It may already be too late; but I genuinely think the citizenry of this country wants the United States to compete. If only our elected leaders weren&#8217;t holding us back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, I can hear the cries already: typical liberal west coaster spouting more government spending.  But, oh.  Doh.  Okay, well what can basic science research possibly lead to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transistor\">any<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet\">way<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Barrett, the chairman of Intel has a scathing op-ed in the San Fransisco Chronicle on the recent spending omnibus and its effect on science funding (via Computing Research Policy Blog): What are they thinking? When will they wake up? It may already be too late; but I genuinely think the citizenry of this country &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/01\/21\/craig-barrett-youre-subsidizing-the-wrong-seed-corn\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Craig Barrett: You&#039;re Subsidizing the Wrong Seed Corn&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}