Pumping large sums of money into specific research areas is not the best way to achieve scientific breakthroughs according to Martin Perl, the US particle physicist who shared the 1995 Nobel prize. And 'fashionable' areas of science are not the best places to make major discoveries says Perl in a paper on the Los Alamos eprint server.
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