More than 700 Spanish blogs are joining today in an initiative against the budget cuts in R + D + i that the State accounts will suffer for 2010 , and that still need to be debated in Parliament. The idea came from the blogger Javier Peláez, author of Aldea irreductible, who less than a week ago proposed that "anyone who has a blog and believes that Science in Spain is not for budget cuts" should publish a reason not to cut the assignment to Spanish Science .
And the response has been immediate. Blogs such as Microsiervos , Por la Boca Die el pez , Escolar , Magonia , Ciencia de Bolsillo , Fogonazos , Obsolete Technology , … have already begun to publish their arguments against the average reduction of 15% of the budget Ministry of Science announced for the next anus. Luis Alfonso Gámez recalls that, according to the prestigious biologist Francisco Ayala, in the United States "50% of economic development is attributed to new scientific and technological discoveries ." And Ambros, from Ciencia de Bolsillo, assures that "the researchers had already gone abroad in the last budget cut."
