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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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