>>12158260hey anon, there are plenty of government paid researchers at national labs too. FNAL, Stonybrook, LBNL, Argonne, Oak Ridge, Livermore, that one in montana or idaho that developed all the modern nuclear reactors like breeders and thorium reactors (forget its name...)
there is plenty of fundamental research going on at US national labs and they, like academia, have policies (mostly) which mandate that their research goes into the public domain
