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It takes time for the corruptive influence of a monopoly to be recognized intellectually. The soviets went on making cars for decades, with many in the west praising how the soviet government planning sped up industrialization in that country . . . the full extent of the ossification was not fully recognized until the 1960's, and did not become subject of derision until the 1980's, as they kept churning out cars of 1940's technology.
We are only now witnessing the first generation of scientists who have their entire careers built under the quasi-fascist/central-planning regime for scientific research funding finally rising to the senior leadership of the scientific community. AGW is one of the first signs of that bureaucratic/theocratic rot.
Real scientific research is an inherently disruptive process in the best sense of Schumpetarian Creative Destruction. Government organization on the other hand is always geared towards maintenance of the status quo. The two are simply incompatible. That's why whenever research were funded the government/church (as in state established church), it always became artificial scripture-based templates for career advancement displacing inquiries into the real world.
It's always important not to conflate .gov with .god. LOL. Government does not possess "infinite wisdom." Scientists are always in the best position to devise ways to satisfy their own curiosity at their own expense. If they can not get enough resources from working on other projects to finance their own pet pursuits, then obviously it's better for them to have the freedom to appeal to multiple different sources, competing sources. When Columbus became curious about finding a way to the East by going west, he went to the King of Portugal, who rejected the "research" proposal. Then Columbus was able to find alternative funding from Italian merchants and the various royal heads in Castille, Aragon and England. If Columbus had lived on the other end of the Eurasian continent, where all intellectual inquires came under the purview of the unified imperial bureaucracy, he would have been banned from ever venturing onto the high seas around 1492 and that would have been final. The Ming court did actually ban all high seas travel for hundreds of years because high seas discoveries were too disruptive to existing hierarchy; that's after the same court initially funding high seas explorations on a massive scale and probably caused something similar to the South Seas Bubble and Mississippi Bubble. As the old saying goes, if you want to kill an industry, get the government to support it. LOL. That idiom applies to scientific research too.
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