Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

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Maybe a key ingredient to this play is that it is sooooo difficult to understand scientifically speaking that investors are simply willing to buy in on sheer faith that something really big must be brewing from such complex "rocket science"


Well that certainly is the attitude at the company I work for. If it's nano, it has to be a good idea. You wouldn't believe the stupid ideas people are throwing around that an undergraduate physics or chemistry major would be able to say "that can't work." It's amazing. Another thing; I'm hearing that to get a federal grant in a chemical field these days your proposal has to have "nano" in it somewhere.

Not so much a sign of a bubble but perhaps a sign of the end of America's great scientific age - fad science is the only way to get your work funded these days. The state of the scientific literature is really bad too - one can't reproduce much (most?) of what is being published these days - peer reveiw is declining greatly in quality.

It's discouraging and I wonder if America's best days are in the past.