> Sam, you keep speaking of science in terms best fit for industry and
> economy. But, as I said twice before, science is not an industry, you cannot
> apply industrial and economical models to science, and you cannot even
> compare science with an industrial model (like you did when comparing
> science with the "Trabant model." Science, philosophy, art, literature, etc,
> are not industries; a model that works in industry, economics, law, monopoly
> control, etc, cannot be imposed on them simply because they escape such
> models, they are beyond such models. In fact, I personally think that doing
> so is a monstrosity
> (which is sadly quite common today.) Science does have several problems
> (including political and epistemological problems,) I simply think that the
> one you are pointing at is not one of them.