Posted by alexandra_k on April 25, 2016, at 14:51:30
In reply to NIH funding, posted by baseball55 on April 23, 2016, at 20:06:29
Yeah.
Researchers are increasingly expected to obtain external (non governmental) sources of funding, too. And / or governments are increasingly only willing to invest in projects they consider are likely to attract external (non governmental) sources of funding down the track.
At least, they are over here.
It is becoming increasingly hard to study things that there won't be a drug market for (e.g., because the people who get those things aren't in the position to pay a lot for treatment).
Publishing companies...
I'm kinda interested in how that's gone a similar way. With a few monopolies profiteering (annual / disposable books)...
There was this thing here that kinda interested me... Company funds a PhD student to do some research into chair ergonomics... Say, $5,000 or $10,000 or $50,000... Then once the project is done company wins the chair contract for all the new laboratories... Making a profit of: ?
That's the way of the world, apparently.
What nobody thought to ask: Do we really need chairs (expensive ones, at that) in laboratories? They are a tripping hazard...
It sickens me that that's the way the money flows...
Of course, part of the whole 'nobody is particularly interested in cholera or maleria or whatever'... Is... What the hell would be do with the populations that weren't 'controlled' in that way?
Some countries are currently dealing with the effects of a significant drop in infant mortality and the lack of a war to believe in...
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