title: If it ain't fixed, don't break it....
abstract: Value-judgements about the need for more 'goal-directed' or 'basic' scientific research beg the question of how the publicly funded scientific enterprise works. An efficient management would start to put things right.
authors.affiliation: Molecular Histology Labs, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20879.
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Fox
mesh_terms: D011640:Public Policy; D012106:Research / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012109:Research Support as Topic; D012586:Science