Research And It’s Politics

When the topic was first introduced, I interpreted it as the “behind the scenes” of general research. What I mean by that is the issues from social or governmental parties that may get involved, how research is taught to others, what is being researched, and what’s influencing research. Unfortunately in today’s world, everything is done with much help from funding whether by sponsors or by the government. And how people get the tools they need for research is being funded by corporations for institutions such as universities and private research companies. But then there is a demand for a specific discipline which can affect how much funding is being provided. What I mean is that if there is a desire to research how to build a better car over building a better vacuum, people will probably rather fund the research for the car more than the vacuum. That’s what Brian Martin is stating within the first ten pages of chapter 7, that a discipline and funding affect each other. But what if we didn’t have to worry about the money? How much could we accomplish if politics didn’t have such an enormous affect? Who knows, we might have been able to have information on how to live on another planet by now if it wasn’t for politics.