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Originally Posted by Azure
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what a strange article.
getting government funding is not worth the effort
I'd estimate 95%+ of all independent medical research (university or medical institutes) is funded by public money (it's probably 99% in Canada).
Private industry (the Pfizers and Mercks of the world) do devote billions of dollars to R&D, but I don't know of anyone who has significantly tapped into those dollars - maybe small 5 figure pilot project grants, but nothing compared to NIH or NSF grants. Those billions are for company research. Private foundation money is insignificant - millions compared to billions from public sources
Only private funding lets researchers do what they need to and leads to truly reliable results
This is laughable. Private foundation grants are highly restrictive in what you can do. If your research does not align to their mandate, there is no chance of being funded. In terms of reliablility, would you trust, for example, a lung cancer biologists work funded by NIH over one funded by Phillip Morris?