INTERIOR BIOLOGISTS TOLD TO FUNDRAISE
Washington, DC -- The U.S. Department of Interior has told its elite ecological scientists that they have to raise 20 percent of their own salaries and research funds from outside sources, according to memos released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). This new "business practices" policy jeopardizes long-term research, skews scientific priorities and causes researchers to spend time scrambling for funds, say affected scientists in a PEER survey released today.
Frankly, I don't understand how this is even legal.