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The clickbait article title is completely unsupported by the actual content of the article. The NIH isn't being slashed and burned. It's simply redirecting mor
by scarab92 2y ago
The clickbait article title is completely unsupported by the actual content of the article.
The NIH isn't being slashed and burned. It's simply redirecting more of it's funding to actual grant recipients, to do actual research, rather than allowing NIH funding to be siphoned off by the universities for largely unrelated purposes.
Harvard siphoned off a whopping 69% of the grant amount, and it's not going to funding equipment or similar, those expenses also comes out of the remaining 31%.
If people actually cared about increasing the overall NIH research output, they should be supportive of these changes.
- jltsiren 2y agoIt doesn't work like that. NIH grants are awarded in terms of direct costs, and indirect costs come on top of that. If you have a $500k/year grant and your university has negotiated 69% overhead rate, NIH pays the university $845k/year. If the overhead rate is slashed to 15%, the university gets $575k/year. The remaining $270k/year probably won't be spent on anything, as the entire point is supposed to be cutting government spending.