The University of California gets more than $4 billion each year in grants and contracts for research.
Suddenly the Board of Regents is focusing on the source of $2 million of that. That's 5% of 1%...the number is really small.
The source is big tobacco.
Apparently one researcher found something that was too close to even remotely good new for big tobacco and the rest of the researchers don't like it. Result - cut off big tobacco.
Without getting into details of he said she said, it smells of a double standard to me.
How can one group tell another group what results to NOT find? There is a research department on transexualism at UC Santa Cruz. Uh...who funds that?
The public universities are public...receiving public funds. If the guy's findings are flawed, someone do research to prove it.
How can the profs or board of regents single out one source of funding and say we don't want it anymore because our results are not what the majority wants to see?
Leave it to California....
What do you think?
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