somebody wrote:
> the level of abstraction was clear from the inclusion of "as an
> institution".

A university is "an institution."   Science isn't "an institution."

>> It's OK for all the politicians to be corrupt, too, as long as the
>> government itself isn't corrupt?
> 
> The checks and balances system is precisely there to prevent individual
> corruption affecting the government.

Checks and balances work only when most politicians *aren't* corrupt.

> Scientists are as much capable as making bad choices
> and decisions as politicians, 

Who made the decision to spend 10 billion dollars? If it was the 
scientists, then what do you care? It's their 10 billion dollars.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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