"One of the distinguishing features of the modern school reform movement is the extent to which super-wealthy private philanthropists are leading the drive to privatize the public education system. Some of them believe the public system is inefficient, while others simply don’t believe in the public sector — but whatever the motive, the vast amounts of private money that the wealthy have poured into reform initiatives that they favor have driven the public agenda. But now it turns out that it isn’t just public education that billionaires are privatizing. They are doing it with science, too.
Some of the same names that are behind education reform are also involved in the privatization movement of science, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, and the Koch brothers, according to this story in The New York Times,
Some see this as a public good, saying that there isn’t enough public investment in science and health issues to make the progress that modern society needs. They cite Gates’s effort to eradicate polio on the planet as one of those praise-worthy projects.
But others worry that science research should not be subject to the likes and dislikes of the wealthy or that private philanthropists should be the people who, by leveraging their own fortunes, set the public agenda. interests. Critics also worry that many private funders of science are not interested in the kind of basic research that leads to fundamental breakthroughs but, rather, “a jumble of popular, feel-good fields like environmental studies and space exploration.” There is also concern that the wealthy can press their personal political agendas by funding specific scientific programs."
Some of the same names that are behind education reform are also involved in the privatization movement of science, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, and the Koch brothers, according to this story in The New York Times,
Some see this as a public good, saying that there isn’t enough public investment in science and health issues to make the progress that modern society needs. They cite Gates’s effort to eradicate polio on the planet as one of those praise-worthy projects.
But others worry that science research should not be subject to the likes and dislikes of the wealthy or that private philanthropists should be the people who, by leveraging their own fortunes, set the public agenda. interests. Critics also worry that many private funders of science are not interested in the kind of basic research that leads to fundamental breakthroughs but, rather, “a jumble of popular, feel-good fields like environmental studies and space exploration.” There is also concern that the wealthy can press their personal political agendas by funding specific scientific programs."
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