Stephen Downes

The British science journal Nature complains about the state of science in Canada. And as the Globe and Mail reports, "In a rebuttal letter to Nature, Industry Minister Jim Prentice writes that the government is committed to 'supporting world-leading research.'" All I can say (while Ackerman expresses no opinion whatsoever) is that the Canadian government funds me - and, with the provincial governments, virtually every other scientist in the country - and that can't be bad, can it?