quintal wrote:

Thank you Quiintal for your informative, intelligent and adult response.

I thought there might be one or two people still here who could respond
in a manner worth reading.

In article DIALUPUSA.NET>,
jpstifel@isp.com says...

Science, like any human endeavor, is limited by funding, imagination
and the interests of egos involved. Most funding is provided by
governments or corporations for purposes of furthering established
industry interests (that should be obvious), and new research is only
pursued if it is either economically viable or militarily useful.

Research in all other fields accept those approved by the
establishment (ANY OF THEM) will always be limited by interest (which
gets reduced by official ostracism and encouraged by kook clingers-on,
though they can still provide funding, usually don't though), danger
to established interests (viable free energy sources, if they exist,
threaten very rich and dangerous people, cheap home-made superweapons
a BIG NO NO, make your own medicines uh-nope, find out whats really
going on- they'll wipe your mind, or just out right kill you, or
convince you to watch some kind of "programming"... sorry for the
emotive juvenalism, but it is that bad), and of course access to data
and equiptment in proportion to avoiding the above mentioned dampeners
of real progress.