[name] Taken for Granted
[validity] moderate scientific advancement
[description] After a generous grant from the National @@DEMONYM@@ Cancer Fund, @@CAPITAL@@ University Professor @@RANDOMNAME@@ has finally published experimental results detailing the synthesis of a new treatment drug. Not long after this announcement, a duo of scientists employed by the private Triton Research Labs released a counterstatement, detailing a theoretical proof about how the structure of the supposed isomer was a physical impossibility -- in essence, accusing the Professor of fraud.
[option] "The National @@DEMONYM@@ Cancer Fund is primarily supported through taxpayer money," groans @@RANDOMNAME@@, one of your Science advisors. "Frankly, financing unethical individuals is just bad optics. We need to revoke that grant immediately, revise our selection criteria for future purposes, and do a thorough investigation of the experimental procedures of our current awardees. I want this to be a one-time event at best."
[effect] monetary grants can be revoked over a single typo in a research paper
[option] "The fix is in!" protests the embattled Professor, waving a research journal in your face. "Before they left for the private sector, the Triton duo were once my collegues at the university! The only reason they're making a stink is because I beat them to the breakthrough! See, this is the problem with private laboratories: they're always in it for themselves. After closing these selfish enterprises down, you should increase my grant so I can finance the mass-production of these molecules -- and those scheming bums will only be able to watch from the curb."
[effect] sugar water is the active ingredient in the newest cancer drug to hit the market
[option] "Why is the government paying for this debacle in the first place?" questions @@RANDOMNAME@@, dean of @@CAPITOL@@'s most prestigous private school. "Scientists are clearly using my tax money to finance their petty feuds. Besides, they've shown not to be truthful about their research anyways. I think they've gotten complacent on the government teat. Scrap the National @@DEMONYM@@ Cancer Fund, among other government grants, and make these pointy-head losers actually work for a seat at the table."
[effect] Nobel Prize-winning scientists are seen panhandling on street corners
