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<br />The transition from research to application of a new technology is not <br />govemed by scientific considerations alone. The most effective support <br />for funding of weather modification research bas come from people with <br />highly prac~ical interests. and the perception of practical results has <br />been the principal jus~ification put forward for Government funding of <br />weather modification research. <br /> <br />In the turbulent quarter century of its scientific phase, weather mod- <br />ification has received some of its most important insights from heter- <br />odox sources. It would be impoverishing indeed if answers to Osborn's <br />questions were to be sought only along the narrow pathway of the statis- <br />tical orthodoxy which he prescribes as the only way. or if all applica- <br />tions (and the insights deriving from them) were to be blocked at the <br />present stage. <br /> <br />IS <br />