And therein lies the vested interests. What are scientists doing talking about economics?

The Academy isn't exactly noted for its strict scientific discipline, especially with its "Division of UFOlogy and Bioenergoinformatics'. See:

http://www.csicop.org/si/9607/russia.html


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A well-known scandal happened in 1991, when physicists of the USSR Academy of Sciences demanded that government cease to support charlatans working on "microlepton fields' (distant biological influence of army and civil inhabitants with "torsion radiation'). About $500 million had been spent on such "investigations.' Fortunately, the Supreme Soviet Committee stopped this waste of money.


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