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Most 'misfit research' is funded by the government through broad training grants or broad departmental level support. Parts of those grants get used to fund early career researchers and students. Most often it is funding mainstrea
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I look forward to subsidizing this effort with my skyrocketing home power bill.
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>These grants are the water, sun and food for all the PhDs in the US Not just PhDs. R&D in general. The big secret is the US government has been subsidizing corporate R&D for 70 years and people seem to have forgotten that fact.
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Funded primarily by US taxpayers via multiple NSF grants and additional grants from the Human Frontier Science Program, Moore Foundation, Schmidt Foundation, and Dalio Foundation.
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Funded primarily by US taxpayers via 6 NIH grants from the National Cancer Institute and NCATS, with additional support from private foundations including the Robertson Fund, V Foundation for Cancer Research, Breast Cancer Alliance, and Bec
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Supported by grants from NIH/NIAID Grants and the University of California Davis.
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Funded by National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention aka NIOSH / CDC
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This research was funded by multiple NIH grants, a Department of Defense grant, and the Martin Family Foundation.
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Your 'pessimism' towards academia is the justification the 'burn it all down' people are using to ... burn it all down. I'm not exaggerating. The innovation machine is currently ablaze. Even funded grants for things
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>I am moderately pessimistic about the state of research because I do hear things I don't like, but this is compensated by my belief that US academia has a ridiculous amount of institutional entropy, and I'm perfectly willing w
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Corporations were funding scientific innovation indirectly through corporate taxes and they fought with every fiber of their being to cut those taxes because they didn't want to pay for it. If you think they will suddenly have a change
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And for some reason a contingent of HN is cheering it on. We are breaking the innovation machine and pretending discoveries will just keep happening.
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The actual paper in question: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00736-6 Funded by Chinese and US government agencies and agricultural research programs.
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I guess? Label it whatever you want. It's still consanguinity and it causes a tremendous amount of disease and the largest offender by far is cultural acceptance if it.
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Cases like that described are very rare compared to 20-50% consanguinity in some communities. The disease burden from this is huge. Not saying SA isn't an issue, but if the issue is incest, then cultural acceptance of it is the biggest
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This is a tragic story, but I think the bigger issue is some places have high levels of cultural acceptance of consanguine relationships.
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Except it did? Fraud was identified. Science moved forward. Literally working as intended.
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Funded by US taxpayers via 11 grants, predominantly from NIH with additional institutional support from Harvard University.
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Funded primarily by UK and European taxpayers and foundations via 8 grants, predominantly from the Wellcome Trust, with additional support from EU research council and Swiss science programs.
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An absolutely incredible public resource.
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Lately I've just been posting who is funding studies posted on HN. Usually taxpayers via government foundations/institutes. A lot of people on HN seem unaware of how innovative research is paid for and are even cheering the cuts i
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Supported by the National Key R&D Program of China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the Beijing Municipal Health Development Research Fund.
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2025 funding news "At least 350 Harvard medical grants were terminated by the Trump administration." https://abcnews.go.com/US/350-harvard-medical-grants-termina... "At Grim Town Hall, Harvard Medical Sc
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"HHMI halts inclusive science programme" : https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00396-6
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Made possible by 1 grant from the Oregon State University Foundation.
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Funded by Japanese taxpayers via 3 grants.
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Funded by taxpayers via 11 grants split between Canadian government agencies and foundations, US NASA programs, and European Southern Observatory telescope time.
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>Why does the Y axis start at 320? Because CO2 didn't start from zero in 1960?
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Funded by US taxpayers via a grants from the National Science Foundation and Dartmouth College.
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The issue isn't a technical one with gene-therapy. The issue is ethical. Editing your DNA can be dangerous or even deadly if it doesn't work. Modern methods have mostly solved this, but there is still a lot of hesitancy due to pri

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