You make some good points and I agree with your ballpark figures, but you seem very stuck in a status quo mindset. The entire NIH budget is about what we are gi

You make some good points and I agree with your ballpark figures, but you seem very stuck in a status quo mindset. The entire NIH budget is about what we are giving Ukraine in aid. High-frequency trading alone saps billions from the economy. We could easily find money to triple our science expenditures if we wanted to. And yes we'd need to evaluate faculty success differently so that we would no longer require each professor to run a lab of a half dozen grad students in order to have enough publications for tenure. But that's easily doable via a collective decision.