How would changing funding from the federal government to private corporations stop fraud?
I could see how shifting the burden of funding to corporations would impact research, but it wouldn’t be good. Corporations are more interested in the end product, not basic research. Universities focus on basic research. (Basic research is the research into how stuff works.) Why would corporations fund that when there is no foreseeable profit in it? If corporations are funding research, then what incentive would they have to fund students going to graduate school? If they did fund graduate education, what kinds of obligations would the corporations require of students? Would they limit them only to certain types of research that the corporation would find valuable? What would the impact be on professors?
My graduate education was paid by a fellowship from an endowment, a fellowship donated by a biotech company, and several researchships funded by Superfund, the government agency which oversees toxic waste cleanup and research into toxic waste. That means my tuition was about 70% paid by the federal government. My research was funded through state and federal grants.
I think the issue is best addressed by focusing on the research fraud. When I was in graduate school, we had to take ethics classes. I’m pretty sure the people who choose to commit fraud took those classes, too. Maybe internal audits at the universities would help to control fraud.
Straining out a gnat, swallowing a camel.
This is why nobody cares about your. literature postings on the clot shots.
Dingbat.