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<p>Well, to be fair, first of all, I doubt that this study required all that much funding anyway. It’s not like running a giant particle accelerator. All you would need to do to complete this research is to build and then analyze a sociological dataset and that’s pretty cheap to do. It’s just a data-mining exercise and computer processing power is dirt cheap. </p>
<p>As far as the purpose of the study - hey, trust me, there are plenty of papers out there that have far less purpose than this one. At least this paper could, potentially, serve to understand the psychological basis of terrorism, which I see as a useful goal. There are plenty of other studies out there that, at least in my opinion, have no discernable purpose whatsoever.</p>