Wisdom of the Idiots: part 2 - The Famous Five use Number-Crunching Logic and save the day!
Newspaper headlines warned that top scientists say that if we leave the EU then Scientific Research and Development will suffer in Britain and we will fall behind world leaders. God forbid, eh?
I thought this didn't sound quite right somehow and decided to have a wee look for myself.
This is what I found at Gov.uk.
Policy Paper
2010 to 2015 government policy: research and development
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We are protecting the £4.6 billion per annum funding for science and research programmes in cash terms during the spending review period.
So, £4.6 billion pounds is what government hands out for R&D every year.
Britain hands the EU £20 billion every year and we get nothing for it at all.
That's nearly five times the funding for R&D.
So, would scientific R&D suffer from leaving the EU?
Someone is lying to me. Again.
Musashi.
In Wisdom of the Idiots: part 3, We attempt to unravel the coils of serpents in the minds of men and reduce Cognitive Uncertainty in the 21st century. We take a second look at the threat to Red Headed Men in the Commodities Market, and ask if Dwarfs are Under-represented and Underprivileged?