Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science the way you had to be in England in the 17th 18th centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can and the information that they need to do it is there.
Of course not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments but for the people who are willing to go out and do that – if the experiments don't work then it means it's not science.
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In this time of budget cuts we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.
