[OT] price of doing science (was: No call for Ada...)

From: Marius Amado Alves (amado.alves_at_netcabo.pt)
Date: 04/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 13:30:25 -0700
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>

"Modern science deals also with budgets, management, conferences, grants,
degrees and citations." (Kopilovich)

"That's scientific bureaucracy. It is merely the price scientists should pay
for having an ability to do science." (Kasakov)

"No, these days [the] majority of professional scientists recognize all that
not as the price, but as the elements of [a] more or less natural
collaborative environment." (Kopilovich)

Believe me, it's perceived as the "price", and not at all "natural", at
least by the vast majority of scientists, form all over the world, and
particulary Europe, I've been working with in various institutions for the
last decade or so. A scientist's dream is to have some department take care
of all aspects except the scientific when preparing and managing projects.
Let me tell you that in academic research centers we loose a lot of
opportunities because we don't have that department. And we don't have it
because we're always on a short budget and prefer to spend it in strictly
scientific activities. Yes it's a vicious circle. (I expect *industrial*
research centers e.g. PARC to have such departments, but I have no inside
knowledge.)