[cafebeen]

Budgets are finite, and most science funding involves some decision making about how to allocate resources.

[bboygravity]

And you can't know where to allocate resources best until after the science is done (unless a field/group is known to scam).

[xandrius]

Although for what we know now, we definitely can't understand the territory without a map.

[mr_toad]

It’s a non-profit volunteer run project. People spend more money on stamp collections.