Mike Mears
Appearances
Planet Money
Why does the government fund research at universities?
So let me try to bring up a budget justification I have here.
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Why does the government fund research at universities?
Tissue culture plates, cryovial tubes, centrifuge tubes, antibiotics, chemotherapeutics, small molecules, inhibitors.
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Why does the government fund research at universities?
I submitted a line item request for a new fluorescent microscope, but that still costs like $100,000.
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Why does the government fund research at universities?
No, it doesn't go to me. It doesn't belong to me, right? It belongs to the university.
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Why does the government fund research at universities?
Yeah. If EH&S is listening, yes, everyone's wearing a lab coat.
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Why does the government fund research at universities?
Totally. Yeah. I mean, I think... Yeah. And I'm right there with them, right? Like I don't, I certainly, I don't want to mark them. I think all of us want to just do our work, right? And we want to, we want to do what it is we came here to do, which is like do some cool science and help people out.
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Why does the government fund research at universities?
I worry that by sort of laying low, we're actually maybe undermining our future ability to actually do that.
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Why does the government fund research at universities?
It's shifted. I think in like early February, it was like the panic emoji.
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Why does the government fund research at universities?
You could work that one in there too, yeah.
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Why does the government fund research at universities?
Might be like the red angry emoji, or it might be the sort of exhausted emoji. If there was sort of like a keep calm and carry on emoji.
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Why does the government fund research at universities?
I really have to get a big grant in the next couple of years or else the money is going to run out at some point.