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by jandrewrogers 25 days ago
They are referring specifically to research funding for people employed in academia. The US funds a huge amount of research outside of academia.

A large percentage of the US DoD research budget is going to researchers outside of academia, for example. This includes a lot of relatively pure research with no immediate military application.

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As someone in academia, whos group currently gets 60% from primarily AMES and USONR. And I know it's not unique to us.