NIH slashes overhead payments for research
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NIH slashes overhead payments for research
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Re: NIH slashes overhead payments for research
#2well, pharma companies are screwed. They aren't going to do their own research, so no new drugs
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#3Another illegal move by Trump admin and the US Congress will do nothing.
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#4The reputational damage to US scientific prestige is incalculable. And all for amounts that are tiny slivers of the federal budget for research that benefits potentially everyone.
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#5Reforming overhead payments, somehow, is probably a good idea.
Altering the deal on existing contracts without notice is very much NOT a good idea. That they're attempting to do so is a pretty good sign of bad faith.
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#6It will be interesting to see who comes out in defense of the schools who will have to take on the burden of indirect costs.
How can they possibly shoulder the costs with their $40,000/yr tuitions and multi-billion dollar endowments?
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Exactly. Research is overrated, we have progressed enough. The Chinese can do the rest. Everyone should join the trades.
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Precisely.
I remember my university taking 35% off the top of all grants for a lab that was 30 years old (hadnt been updated), and a sufficient but hardly cutting edge instrument room.
The university was getting far more money than if the PI rented lab space at an incubator.
Re: NIH slashes overhead payments for research
#10The reputational damage to US scientific prestige is incalculable. And all for amounts that are tiny slivers of the federal budget for research that benefits potentially everyone.
>tiny slivers
We have a saying in Japan that goes: "Even dust piled up will make a mountain."
Considering the monies concerned here are also tax dollars, I am wholly unsympathetic to the actual monetary sums. They could be 1 cent and my feelings on this matter wouldn't change: Audit every single line item and slash anything wasteful.
Collateral damage is unavoidable, and more importantly I don't care about collateral damage since we are finally getting the audits and cuts we the people demanded for way too long.