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Comment by timtadh | Hacker News Reader

Not all research is funded by tax payers.

Be prepared to name research projects that do not receive government funding in the first or second degree. (That is: receive funding directly, or from grant-making organizations that themselves receive substantial government funding.)

Any research funded by non-governmental organizations like the Howard Hughes Foundation, Michael J Fox foundation, etc, etc.

According to the way stem cell research was segregated, those projects would have had to take place in buildings funded without taxes, staffed by researchers paid by private funds, using new equipment and materials, etc...

A great deal of research funded by such organizations is done in combination with taxpayer funding, particularly with regard to infrastructure. As a cancer researcher I had funding from companies and foundations, but depended on my position in a tax-payer funded research lab to actually do the work.

Also, as charities they probably get tax advantages.

By that measure, everything is gov't funded. Thankfully the courts don't see it that way.

Your taxes are not funding international research.

I think the claim was that they were being funded by taxes, not that they were being funded only by the taxes they personally pay.

My company just had a paper accepted where we collaborated with Biogen Idec. Neither of us received government funding for the research.

Companies like OpenEye scientific publish many papers and proudly (for whatever reason) declare they have never received a government grant for their research.

When you work in an industry full of people with PhDs, lots of papers get published that didn't receive government funding; people with PhDs like to write papers.

Sounds like Libertarian propaganda. /s

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