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Why funding "silly" science research leads to billion-dollar breakthroughs

Why funding "silly" science research leads to billion-dollar breakthroughs

Gail P Sherman
Jul 29, 2025
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Scientific research in the United States is under attack. In some ways, science is an easy mark in a country that is increasingly anti-science and anti-intellectual. Marine conservation biologist Dr. David Shiffman, author of Why Sharks Matter, has penned an important piece in American Scientist about the importance of publ…

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