Then why did you use Dr Hanson as an example when he is being massively funded?

You know full well that the NYT has a paywall and that none of us can read it who do not have a subscription. There is no point in linking it without providing this.

Btw, I would argue that given the scope of waste and fraud in academic university research, the effort to streamline it is going to inevitably cut some worthy researchers simply because it is impossible not to do so.

At the same time, we could focus on all of the wasteful, useless, irrelevant research that comprises the majority of university research these days as more and more pursue their doctorate, and profs looking to maintain their jobs try to put put volume simply because of "publish or perish" requirements. If we did look at this, we would find a good way to address the problem of cutting the deficit and "fiscal responsibility" that you were whining about yesterday.