Thursday, April 16, 2009
Bank chief 'wrong' about science
The head of Britain's largest science university says the Bank of England's governor was wrong to caution against more spending on science. Professor Sir Roy Anderson says that investment in science is "one of the few options" the government has to kick-start the economy. He thinks there should be a big rise in science spending as part of a new high technology industrial strategy. Professor Anderson is the rector of Imperial College.
IMO: He is certainly correct. The UK is on its way to ruin because of the slumdog UK bankers, corrupt politicians and civil servants, and losers like McBride etc. That is not rhetoric, just sad proven fact. India's 4% to 5% growth rate despite almost overwhelming odds will be even further improved by the 1500 new Universities and indeed my own "Institute for Fundamental Studies" which is establishing two branches in India and hopefully a large Goa campus. Many of the points made by Anderson are true and can apply to India. Further there is our own work in Experimental Philosophy and applied neuroscience, and the hope that India will become the first post-post-Industrial economy, leapfrogging over the backward US and China.
Probably the best thing to do in India is to vote Congress and/or Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress. If the link between these two parties is saved, India may be saved too. (I do not dispute the merits of many other parties, including BJP and BSP, I just think Congress/TMC is the ticket to vote for).
IMO: He is certainly correct. The UK is on its way to ruin because of the slumdog UK bankers, corrupt politicians and civil servants, and losers like McBride etc. That is not rhetoric, just sad proven fact. India's 4% to 5% growth rate despite almost overwhelming odds will be even further improved by the 1500 new Universities and indeed my own "Institute for Fundamental Studies" which is establishing two branches in India and hopefully a large Goa campus. Many of the points made by Anderson are true and can apply to India. Further there is our own work in Experimental Philosophy and applied neuroscience, and the hope that India will become the first post-post-Industrial economy, leapfrogging over the backward US and China.
Probably the best thing to do in India is to vote Congress and/or Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress. If the link between these two parties is saved, India may be saved too. (I do not dispute the merits of many other parties, including BJP and BSP, I just think Congress/TMC is the ticket to vote for).
# posted by uv : 5:49 AM
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