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Robbing Peter to Pay ... Rover?

Mar 07, 2007

According to this BBC news article, the British government is taking back £68 million pledge to research programs -- particularly hitting scientific and medical investigations -- in order to pay for the collapse of the Rover car company and nuclear-related costs in the country.

The article quotes Julia Goodfellow, head of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, as saying, "Science innovation and research is about the medium to long term. If you start cutting it because of a short-term need then you have real problems." Hear, hear.

 

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