Trump Administration Proposes Big Cuts In Medical Research

[bamaEER]

Care to elaborate how quality of education is enhanced? The prof doing the research gains, but the students assigned to the profs class loses while the prof is away from classroom to do research.

Money draws talent. Talent then builds institutions drawing more talent (professors and students). Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Mayo, UCLA, all are proof of this and that expertise can be found in the labs and classrooms.

 

[WhiteTailEER]

Nice discourse, but you avoided the tenants of my post (questions)? I (nor anyone else that I see) advocate eliminating research funding/ I have been there and know that a lot of the money so allocated is not leading to knowledge advancement. Some of the studies could be eliminated and no one would really notice (except for a very, very small fringe group of folks). even in the areas we all might consider valued there is a lot of research funding that goes to folks who do nearly nothing creative or inventive and, probably, should not be part of a research program. Many faculty use research funding to support them and allow them to avoid (or at least diminish) their teaching duties. Students attend a certain University because of the 'renowned' faculty and ,yet, these folks never interact with those students. The hired help (grad students) carry on the teaching (such that it is in many cases) and ale do little in the away of meaning investigation to earn the stipend they derive from the research grants. Much money could be, and should be, saved and directed toward meaningful production. This is what I said, and you avoided anything close to an intelligent discussion of these facts. You went off to the infinite limit rather than address practicality.Nice spin,. but meaningless discourse.

Talk about meaningless ... where did I go off the infinite limit? Did I say all research was being cut?

Is there some waste? Yeah ... show me any business, or enterprise, or endeavor in which there isn't. I'll wait.

If they are planning on getting down to the gnats *** level and identify each and every one of those instances you speak of? No. And even the research areas you speak of end up uncovering things, or find things that end up with uses other than what was originally intended. Rogaine was originally a heart medicine. The WVU researcher uncovered the fraud with VW (which btw, Audi, and Mercedes will be coming up soon), etc.

Cutting research is not the way to go to save money. There are far reaching ripple effects to doing that, which is exactly what I was outlining that you failed to realize or acknowledge. It weakens us.

 

[DvlDog4WVU]

You have no idea how real that actually is.

Another good watch, The Pentagon Wars.

 

[mneilmont]

Money draws talent. Talent then builds institutions drawing more talent (professors and students). Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Mayo, UCLA, all are proof of this and that expertise can be found in the labs and classrooms.

Alabama draws talent, and they can buy about anything they want. Most universities think of themselves as research institutions. Schools like that federal money and do what is necessary to keep fed funds flowing. Of course there are small schools that have excellent credentials in academia.

 

[Mntneer]

You have no idea how real that actually is.

Another good watch, The Pentagon Wars.

We use it some as well... Cracks me up some of the **** I see listed.