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[–] dr-robot@fedia.io 0 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

In all honesty though, 60%+ overheads from a university is incredibly high. To an extent that shows that there is a large amount of management and administrative staff not contributing directly to the work. I'm not in medicine, but in the EU projects I'm in only 0-25% of overheads are funded. Though, I can imagine medicine requiring more than the hard sciences.

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

60%+ is what it takes to lease buildings and pay salaries in NYC, Boston, SF, LA, etc. So, are you okay with wrecking science in those cities?

Have you any concept of how many people would be suffering or dead if Boston’s scientists were flipping burgers instead of making discoveries?

1st pig organ transplant. 1st anesthesia. 1st live donor organ transplant. GLP1 agonists. Enbrel. Gene editing. Human genome. All out of Boston. Off the top of my head.

[–] sus@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Leases would show as zero on the balance sheet if the government owned their own buildings. But of course someone decided that was "against the free market" so now the government cannot own anything in the name of "efficiency"

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