Quote:Since the advent of a business model basedon grant money from politicians.

What the hell are you talking about? When we (yes I am a scientist) write grants we are applying for federal tax payer funded dollars. There are tons of grants that get funded that don't necessarily align with certain special interest, even when their puppets have the greater degree of political influence. Big tobacco and Big Pharma are two of them. Typically, when Republicans are elected to office funding for grants are cut, and that is mostly a product of conservatives being anti-science. They just can't seem to reconcile the best available science with their religious and economic views.

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