{"id":5045,"date":"2010-03-29T03:00:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T08:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=5045"},"modified":"2010-03-29T03:00:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T08:00:48","slug":"wrong-metric-sir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5045","title":{"rendered":"Wrong Metric, Sir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.chron.com\/sciguy\/archives\/2010\/03\/what_is_more_important_energy_or_healthcare.html\">SciGuy:  What is more important: Energy or healthcare?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What is clear is that Americans and American companies value health care over energy by at least a factor of five, and perhaps much more.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty incredible considering that, in the modern world, energy is nearly as essential as good health care, and that substantial energy research is considered a requisite to meet future needs.<\/p>\n<p>Or so I would argue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think SciGuy makes a mistake her in equating dollars spent with importance.  I think one has to consider phase space and pregnant women.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an adage in research that it takes one woman nine months to produce a baby.  If one gathers nine women, they will not be able to produce a baby in one month.  Research takes time, and there is a point at which adding more money to the problem does not yield improved results \u2014 you only benefit if there are new lines of research to be pursued, i.e. the &#8220;phase space&#8221; of the problem can&#8217;t be restricting you.  Medical research has lots of problems that can be investigated, and a large number of drugs that can be researched, as well as improvements in diagnostic equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SciGuy: What is more important: Energy or healthcare? What is clear is that Americans and American companies value health care over energy by at least a factor of five, and perhaps much more. That&#8217;s pretty incredible considering that, in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5045\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}