

All attempts to discover how the universe works benefits us. Even a lot of really esoteric stuff has proven useful in fields like medicine and civil engineering.
Honestly if we can pivot our high tech innovation efforts from being mainly driven by military needs to being driven by basic research (basic in this case meaning researching the natural world directly without any particular goal other than learning), we’d be a lot better off.














It’s a thought stopping strategy, define a negative term to exclude the things you want to defend or normalize. Similar to how they used to teach about “alcohol, tobacco, and drugs” in school like the former two aren’t drugs, almost certainly influenced by alcohol and tobacco lobbies putting pressure on school curriculums.