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The mumblings of another liberal (talk alot and do nothing) that cannot support their argument to support the ongoing waste of tax dollars going to NIH and ultimately the pockets of academic researchers. How about the next big scandal that is coming when people begin to realize that Federal controlled student loans most of which will never be paid back are being used to drive up the costs of tuition and ultimately ending in the pockets of professors and administrators.You do not know what you are talking about, you offer no backup to support your falsehoods because there is none. Look at the Wikipedia post (about as basic a search as someone in 2015 can do).
The NIH grants medical research institutions who PUBLISH (that means share) their results with the scientific community. When there is a promising discovery, it gets commercialized which means everything is suddenly intellectual property: the opposite of academia.
The reason there are no blockbusters coming our way is that we have no idea about how this stuff (medicine) works. That's why there is so little discovery and so many recalls. The big discoveries are made by accident. We don't know how drugs work, we know some compounds have efficacy and they are tested for safety.
Colleges and the world of academics is one of the biggest government ripoffs of tax payers in this country. And the bubble is about to burst and expose the entire fraud. And now Obama is pushing free community college (translation tax payer funded) tuition or furthur translation, a windfall for professor's and salaries.