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So what is your suggestion?

Stop doing research in this area?

Which money gets burned? Yours? Or do you think that this money would have been allocated differently/better?

Ofcourse it's my tax dollars that's getting burnt through this useless endeavour. Academic funding must be for bold ideas that are more likely to fail but push the knowledge boundaries further. There is nothing being learnt by mindless number crunching that is done in such work. Infact this is worse than buying lottery tickets hoping to hit a jackpot.

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