The funding issue raises many troubling questions, which would not arise if fostering independent thought and inquiry were regarded as a public good, having intrinsic value. ... The academic programs, too, at that time, the 1950s, were almost entirely funded by the Pentagon. ... It found that despite the funding source, the Pentagon, almost the entire academic program, there was no military-related work on campus, except in the sense that virtually anything can have some military application. ... The Pentagon and the National Institutes of Health are concerned with the long-term future of the advanced economy. .... observing the Haldane Principle. Indeed, it has been true to a significant degree of funding from the Pentagon and the other national institutions. ... (@chomsky)
MIT ... may have been funded by the Pentagon in the Fifties and Sixties, yet it was also the centre of the resistance movement. It had autonomy. (@telegraph)
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chomsky on pentagon funding
Date: 2014-08-20 06:30 pm (UTC)MIT ... may have been funded by the Pentagon in the Fifties and Sixties, yet it was also the centre of the resistance movement. It had autonomy. (@telegraph)
В обшем-то приемлемый подход, и возможный баланс.