Science Does Just Fine
Science will do just fine if Romney is elected. R&D is alive and well in the commercial field and the Federal Government should have a limited role in this area, especially as we churn our way toward bankruptcy as a nation. Romney's plan for science at the Federal level is to wisely pick those projects that only make sense for the government to undertake when private industry is incapable of or unwilling to do such research. Romney himself will certainly not cherry pick individual programs to support, but instead will have staff at much lower levels of government making those types of decisions. That is what a good manager does. Micromanaging individual programs is not his style and will not be a feature of a Romney administration. To suggest otherwise is just another measure of the misinformation program that is awash in this campaign. Scare tactics often work on people who are too lazy to educate themselves about the real character of our government leaders. I doubt very seriously that science will suffer any ill effects from a Romney administration, certainly no more nor any less as a result of the past four years of an Obama administration.
