[fella]

"How they get anything useful out of them is bizarre."

Those huge tax paid research grants come in quite useful for furthering research in places like Hawaii, Tahiti, the Caribbean, Southern France and New Zealand.

[JayAr36]

Those huge tax paid research grants come in quite useful for furthering research in places like Hawaii, Tahiti, the Caribbean, Southern France and New Zealand.

And Wuhan.

[moose07]

...research in places like Hawaii...

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is just a few miles up the road from me, it is no vacation destination.
Unless you like old WW2 airbases located in out-of-the-way places. :)