{"id":6655,"date":"2010-09-26T04:19:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T09:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=6655"},"modified":"2010-09-26T04:19:34","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T09:19:34","slug":"game-over-man-game-over-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6655","title":{"rendered":"Game Over, Man, Game Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/news\/thegreatbeyond\/2010\/09\/game_over_for_british_science.html\">Game over for British science? <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the panel, cuts would cause many top-flight researchers who currently work in the UK to leave, attracted by increased science funding abroad, while overseas researchers would no longer be attracted to work in UK institutions. The quality of university teaching would suffer, and children would be put off pursuing careers in science. \u201cWhat kind of signal does it send if they see other countries increasing their expenditure while there are cuts here?\u201d asks Lord Rees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Science funding already tends to be <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6503\">less than 1% of GDP<\/a> in many countries (0.5% of GDP in the UK), and yet it affects innovation and future economic development.  And if you let programs wither and die, it&#8217;s very, very hard to re-establish them owing to diffusion of knowledge and people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game over for British science? According to the panel, cuts would cause many top-flight researchers who currently work in the UK to leave, attracted by increased science funding abroad, while overseas researchers would no longer be attracted to work in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6655\">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":[40,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655","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=6655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}