{"id":1489,"date":"2009-02-15T05:21:47","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T10:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2009-02-15T05:21:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T10:21:47","slug":"a-glimpse-inside-the-ivory-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1489","title":{"rendered":"A Glimpse Inside the Ivory Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/judson.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/10\/guest-column-letting-scientists-off-the-leash\/\">Guest Column: Letting Scientists Off the Leash<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Where does the money come from to pay for our science? Mostly from the federal government \u2014 your tax dollars at work \u2014 and non-profit foundations. Income from grants written by professors is the single largest contribution to the Stanford University budget (the second largest is endowment income, and student tuition is a distant third). Stanford has an enormous endowment ($17 billion before the market crash) but applies it in a heavily leveraged manner \u2014 in other words, they tend to use it to prime the pump and not to support ongoing research programs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/incoherently-scattered.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/what-its-like-to-be-professor-nyt.html\">via<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Column: Letting Scientists Off the Leash Where does the money come from to pay for our science? Mostly from the federal government \u2014 your tax dollars at work \u2014 and non-profit foundations. Income from grants written by professors is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1489\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}