Canada�s $200-million lure pulls in 19 big-name researchers

This is awesome. A great thing to happen to Canada and let's hope we see more of it as Canada propels itself further into the 21st century.

Nice.

You know, I figured that on a site such as this, there would be more forum members talking about this.

Perhaps this puts a dent in some peoples theory that the Conservative government hates science?

I loled at some of the commentary on the Globe and Mail article. Haha holy crap. Actually, hilariously enough, I just got in a discussion on faith and science, and of course faith translate to the CPC in some circles

There are so many cry babies there you'd think it was the CBC website.

I never said a majority of cka was liberal. Scroll up, it's still there.

Never assume. First of all a majority of CKA'ers don't even discuss politics or Harper. Usually it's a small core group.

I don't know if spending $200 million on 19 genius' is a good idea, putting all you eggs in one basket. R & D is problematic. People used to think that the future was going to be the Jetsons but now expectations of sciece are lower. I used to work as a technical programmer which put me in R & D and I was inside a rather a lot of research groups and they were pretty much all chaos. The National Research Council has tried to get more bang for the buck for decades. The average researcher is an engineer and not the worlds best but the worlds best need staff, equipment and money to get anywhere - a raw genius is not going to help. The $200 million is just a donw payment. The problem with most R & D is a lack of ideas, it becomes a bureaucracy of people working on nonstarters.