You’re assuming the givers are giving with a near-term expected application of results, which is not the case with grant funded research.
What you’re saying is true about privately funded research and development within business. Reread what I said about that
No, I’m not. Private givers may not always expect a marketable product to result from the research they fund, but they at least expect new knowledge. Preferably important or profound knowledge.
Ah so the scientists would be incentivized to spin their findings as marketably as possible in order to secure more funding in the future? You don’t say
That was never in dispute. I’m not suggesting that substituting private grants for government grants would produce science nirvana.
