According to an eye-popping article in the June 9 Nature, about one-third of more than 3,200 polled U.S. researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health self-reported serious scientific misbehavior during the three years prior to being surveyed.Since 1970, total federal non-medical research spending as a fraction of Gross Domestic Product has declined by about one-third.
Two different domains. Medical research spending has gone way up.
The spending imbalance is even greater, when you consider how many chemistry and physics research centers are getting out of "pure" research in those fields and are starting to focus more on biological research based on the application of physics/chemistry research and techniques. For instance McMaster University's top-flight physics labs (a Canadian example, yes, but we're experiencing the same thing) are focusing more and more on biophysics and nuclear medicine applications, at the expense of areas of study.
But you already knew that from personal experience, dididn't you? :-)