What “outcome” would meet your standards for justifiable research spending? Is a 26% cap on the percentage that indirects can go to all administration - all staff apart from researcher hours directly dedicated to the project - a sufficient “outcome”?
I’m talking about the part where he talks about the government funding indirects specifically, not the research funding in general.
> A key component of this U.S. research ecosystem was the genius of the indirect cost reimbursement system