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by costigan 484 days ago
Only if the organization with the money wants to do that. Flip it around. Do you think the sports program at any major university pays for physics research facilities (or any topic outside of sports medicine)?
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>Only if the organization with the money wants to do that.

Great, this should be a enough of an argument then for the federal government to decide how grant money is used.

It does. That's what the negotiation on overhead rates is for.
A lot of this discussion is people who don’t understand the system reinventing it from first principles as they slowly come to terms with the nuance.