[fricat1ve]

You keep stating this as if it were a fact, but did it occur to you that delineating what research spending in fact contributed is complex?

Medicine is perhaps the industry that most exemplifies one with large confluent streams of money from public, private, and charitable sources involved at different levels of training, research, and practice.

[chimeracoder]

> You keep stating this as if it were a fact, but did it occur to you that delineating what research spending in fact contributed is complex?

Yes, as someone who's actually done this sort of tracking and research extensively, it has, in fact, occurred to me that it is a complex task.