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Originally Posted by foreverwar
Sounds fairly like preaching preexisting conclusions..... 
btw, I think cosmologists are mainly "sitting on their asses" - they sure aren't out at the Large Magellanic Cloud.....  |
There are multiple reasons for why someone is denied funding. They maybe untalented or the committee has no confidence they will find anything.
Perhaps I should qualify what I said. There are of course always alternatives, but to be taken seriously they must account for known observations and make correct predictions the existing one can't
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Originally Posted by Chris
Or you could accept that it's perfectly possible for you to do both - that is, go looking for it, whilst believing the original theft to be an 'act of God'. |
Well you could, or you could suppose that the banking system or the rules of arithmetic have spontaneously failed.