Hm.

1) Article mentions Yale; does not cite source of funding for the research, however. Not all studies through universities are publicly funded.

2) Brain mechanisms are sort of important, I'd say, and subby has done a good job of obfuscating the real discovery in this article.

3) This country is a pack of fatasses anyway. If it brings us less "2300 lb. immoble waste of humanity airlifted to the hospital" story I'm all for it.

BlindingMask

You know that all the way from California?

And lest we forget, they get a lot of private grants too, and they also get a lot of alumni contribution to the medical school.

Well, I don't know the guys you're talking about, but I have seen some pretty shoddy AI grants thrown together. But it's also about demand, since Yale actually has more money than God these days (some of which is definitely misspent).

I know if my department got the kind of cash Yale has we might not even be able to spend it all. I spent some time talking to the guys in my equivalent department over there at a national meeting a few months ago and they're paying PhDs phat cash to do what I do for a pissant administrator's salary. It's sort of... disappointing.