How much does funding affect the course of scientific discovery?
As much as we may not like to admit it, science does not happen in a vacuum.
And the source of the funding through which science takes place can have a massive impact on not just the course of that research, but the long-term outcomes for us all.
Naomi Oreskes is a Historian of Science and author of ‘Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know about the Ocean’ - she joined Jonathan to discuss.
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