What a nonsense argument. Spending like this has to be justified on its own merits, not because there is some other bad spending. The argument you are trying to make would justify spending on almost anything.
The point is that there's so much bad spending that by comparison this is practically nothing to shake a stick at, and it produces actual science.
The point is that there's so much bad spending that by comparison this is practically nothing to shake a stick at, and it produces actual science.