Did you know that, on average, 25% of the dollars the NIH spends on research goes not to the researchers but to the universities and are never audited?
The money goes into slush funds, some of which finds its way into research projects, but most of which evaporates into slush funds that pay for lavish travel, DEI bureaucracies, and God alone knows what else because there is zero accounting for it. It just disappears into the university.
So, not only do grants go to things like studying cocaine in dogs and the sexual practices of rats doing date rape drugs, but you are paying for administrative fees as high as 60% on top of the original grant for the absurdities.
Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the…
