Quote Originally Posted by Mark Walberg View Post

Oh, and he is breaking science, too, taking back indirect costs on NIH grants.
Need to get rid of those free thinking professors.
I'm not even sure what is the end goal here, and it's very possible that there isn't one.

As implemented, the cut will reduce indirect cost to 15% of overall grant, whereas indirect cost could easily account for 50% at tier-1 research institutes.

This will gut quite a bit of research, but I'm not sure if private companies will pick up the slack. There are only so many Bell Labs, after all.

Perhaps the more likely motive is a quid pro quo, restoring indirect cost only if the institution dismantles wholesale ethnic studies programs and such.