Indeed it might. The problem that I have with the college research funding is they don’t research things with practical value that our capitalistic system tends to miss. For instance herbal medicines would be a great area to research, big Pharma has. No Desire to do so because there’s no money in it you can’t Patent natural substances. But there are many natural substances that have a history of fighting cancer. 0 research.
The students are interested and creating papers that will advance their careers not in discovering anything. So we find things that’s fit the halls of Academia, not the streets of America where all the money is extracted from to pay for all these very expensive studies.
Agree with you completely on herbal medicines. People knew in the past what worked and so much has been lost. Good clinical studies should be made based on what is still known and what ancient writings say. And if there’s a way to add a capitalistic motivation, then go for it.
From my years of working for Darpa grants, you made proposals based on where the money was, not on where your own interest was. Remember Kennedy and the space age? Suddenly there was money for space research and everybody ran for it. And successes came out of that money. The company I was with had HAL/S, the computer language for the Space Shuttle.
I have a Chinese herbal doc. Really good results from his awful-tasting teas!