Phemox

Well, people like the hero fighting alone against a multitude of stupid enemies
Science is not an exception
Here in Italy all students have been told the story of Marconi
He invented the radio but the authorities were so stupid to let him go.
Actually it was not like that
Mr Righi immediatly understood the importance of Marconi's discovery from an accademic point of view but he did not see a pratical application
Because of the curvature of the earth a radio signal can travel a few hundreds meters only
That's why he suggested marconi to migrate to uk , which was the richest country .
They could afford to finance even useless stuff
At the time nobody could even suspect the existence of the ionosphere

In conclusion I beleive in democracy both in politics and in science with a few exceptions of course