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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]$57 billion says it all and don’t pay property taxes. Harvard’s got a great gig.[/quote]

How does destroying Harvard help anyone?  And the funding is cut across the board not just from Harvard.[/quote]
Asking a federal funded institution to stay apolitical and non-racist is NOT destroying them!!![/quote]

It is not a federally funded institution.  institutions compete for research grants and are awarded research grants based on the science, not based on some political ideology you're trying to impose.  Or at least that's the way it should be.   When you remove that, it is destructive.[/quote]
The research itself may not be political, but they use the freed up cash to political stuff and become entitled to it. So now they need to lose the entitlement and fund their own research.[/quote]

It's not their own research.  It belongs to the funders. And lots of other institutions do taxpayer-funded research.[/quote]

The decision was made decades ago to have various academic institutions perform research for the government, rather than building more and more National labs.

As many have mentioned, NSF, NIH, DOD, National labs etc keep tight reins on the research. There is collaboration with the National labs but this is a way to expand and multiply scientific research.

Is that what you would prefer? More government labs? Or [b]just let our leading position go in scientific research?[/b]

Science is an engine not an anchor and if we don’t feed it with PhD candidates it will slowly grind to a halt. [/quote]
What if your contractor/employee has been plotting to go against your very own interest or promoting something you believe is a total BS? Cut the ties of course.[/quote]

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