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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dreamer94, post: 322900, member: 6449&quot;]I didn&#039;t say private industry was running it.&nbsp; I said that private Universities carry out some of the research, although no credible person is going to argue that private universities do it better, on average.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The federal government controls the research agenda to a large extent through the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, even the Department of Defense.&nbsp; These government organizations review grant applications, disperse funds and hold the researchers to meet standards in implementation and reporting.&nbsp; If the government wants a particular area of research to be explored, they allocate more money to it and the researchers respond. </p><p><br /></p><p>Our research university system is the best in the world and a good model of a partnership between the public and private sectors.&nbsp; It would not be nearly as good (in my opinion) without the government&#039;s participation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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