What's required for a college professor to keep his job and achieve tenure is publication. It is possible to do research and publish without research grants. And I assume that you agree with the point that I've been trying unsuccessfully to get across to a number of people here: that researchers do not get wealthy from research grants; that the money does NOT go into their pockets; that the world's climate scientists are not being driven by greed to falsify their research results.
Publishing anything in the physical sciences is impossible without research. Do you imagine professors just sit around in their offices dreaming up facts to publish? How do you do research without equipment and supplies?
Publishable research can be done these days in a number of fields with nothing more than a computer and an internet connection. Schools fund a significant amount of research out of their own pockets and the government does it with tax dollars.
Still, my primary point is unchallenged. Research grant money is not paid to researchers to stick in their pockets.
That is a mischaracterization. Plenty of researchers lose money in the process as well. We have all heard stories of researchers who mismanage their grants and simply run out of money before accomplishing their research goals or who look for something novel but find only the already known. A researcher might propose a novel method of inquiry only to find that it does not successfully do what he had hoped it would do and the question being investigated remains a question. None of these situations is going to make a scientist more likely to receive future research funding or improve their standing with their employer. The idea that conducting research is some kind of guaranteed cash cow is specious and unsupportable.
The largest financier of university operations is college football. The second is tuition. Professors are hired and paid to teach students. Schools gain prestige from successful research and having successful and respected researchers on their staff. Such prestige can bring in more research grants but, again, research grants pay for the conduct of research. It is not money anyone is putting directly into their pockets
Yes, let's
Dr. James Hansen?s growing financial scandal, now over a million dollars of outside income
No where in there do I see that Hansen was paid ANY of that money in the form of research grants.
If it wasn't for the billions government spends on so-called "climate research" thousands of professors would be out of a job. That's the bottom line.
You've run the horse over with the cart. That research is funded and those climate scientists are hired because our governments and the expert scientists they listen to, have identified a pressing and threatening climate issue in response to which improvements in our knowledge of climate systems and climate functions, via research, are needed. The problem with your point of view is that you've decided - without evidence - that there is no global warming or that humans are not responsible or that it presents to us no threat and thus the money being spent on such research is a waste and - again without evidence - the process must be corrupt.
The conclusions you present you arrived at long before you collected any evidence to support them. I know that because you still have no evidence.
Conservative foundations that were expropriated by lock-steppin' Gore liberals!
Please point to a SINGLE research project that has been accomplished without grant money. A single ******* one. I'll be waiting till hell freezes over before you find one... junior.
