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Petsko Genome Biology 2011, 12:136 /2011/12/12/136 COMMENT The Columnist Manifesto Gregory A Petsko* A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of the euro. As Which is a huge problem for science, of course. I write this, the likelihood that European monetary unity Scientific research is expensive, and has an inflation rate will break apart like a dropped porcelain doll looms higher than the nominal inflation rate for goods and larger than at any time in the past 2 years. e resulting services. Scientific research typically has a long-term financial upheaval would certainly send both that conti- payoff - something politicians don’t like when everyone is nent, and much of the rest of the world, into a deeper dealing with serious short-term problems. Scientists tend recession, if not into an actual economic depression. Even not to be very politically active as a species, and are in if the single currency manages to survive, the austerity sufficiently small numbers that their votes, which in any measures that are being implemented - foolishly, in my case largely favor leftist candidates under most circum- opinion - throughout most of the EU member nations stances, aren’t highly sought after. Desperate politicians, (and that even Britain appears to be hell-bent on looking for budgets to cut, often slash government- following, at least in part) almost certainly guarantee that funded science programs to the bone. Claims that the the worst recession in half a century will continue for private sector should, and will, pick up the slack, dubious several more years.