China now the most prolific contributor to physical sciences, engineering, math

Re:China now the most prolific contributor to physical scien... by rsj_hn on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @11:41PM (#17975797)

OK, but the NSF research budget (7 billion) is small potatoes compared to the NIH (37 Billion per year), and DOD (70 Billion). And it's about the same as the Department of Energy (7 Billion, not including the national labs).

There is plethora of other Federal agencies that fund research, such as the EPA, NIST, NASA, Federal Aviation Administration, Food and Drug Administration, even the Bureau of Land Management is in on the act. The VA funds research in prosthetics. The Health and Human Services department (including CDC) funds research.

As best I can tell, total Federal outlays for research are about 120 Billion. https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ap_18_...

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Re:China now the most prolific contributor to physical scien... by tacomonstrous on Thursday September 13, 2018 @03:48AM (#17976803)

>but the NSF research budget (7 billion) is small potatoes compared to the NIH

Exactly! And they are the main organization for funding non-medical basic science in the nation.

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Re:China now the most prolific contributor to physical scien... by rsj_hn on Thursday September 13, 2018 @06:14PM (#17983148)

I see, so is your argument not that we need more total federal dollars for research, but that they should be shifted away from the other organizations and towards the NSF?

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Re:China now the most prolific contributor to physical scien... by hedvig on Thursday September 13, 2018 @08:04AM (#17977918)

Where does that funding come from? Why, your pocket. Imagine if the 1% who pays the 50% of that had that money back, how much better our society would be.

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