- Of course the worst people in the world influence paleontology (and many other sciences). Do you know how many fossil halls are named after the Koch brothers? With museums shrugging “Well where else are we going to get the money?”
- Turning to the rich to fund science is not a new phenomenon, often expressed as little different than Carnegie wanting a big dinosaur for his museum a century ago. But the apparent belief that museums have to play nice with conservative freaks to get money? That is more recent.
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