Mises Daily
Author:
Wendy McElroy
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When NASA’s Polar Lander--scheduled to arrive on Mars on December 3rd--disappeared, there was reason for hope. Perhaps the incompetence of state-funded science would finally become obvious. After all, the fiasco followed NASA’s loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter less than three months before. To paraphrase the comment made by one of Oscar Wilde’s