re: #401 Obdicut

Managers? What are you talking about? What managers?

What percentage of the NIH budget do you think is spent on staff? It’s less than 10%— and the vast majority of that is for actual researchers.

Do you know how incredibly efficient basic science research is, in terms of our economy?

[Link: www.faseb.org…]

We get a return of between 25% and 40% on basic science research from the NIH.

Obdi, that the NIH may (or may not) be efficient does not mean the entire government is efficient.