Government funding of science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) courses covers about half the extra cost of teaching them.
We are suspicious of a situation where our whole society is built on charity, private funding of science and donations to cultural institutions.
There is no need to worry that private funding of science withdraws the incentive to publish - publishing, claims Kealey, is the whole incentive.
The public funding of science is not there to be exclusive to those who have money or political power, instead it should be inclusive.
And a greater danger lurks: the possibility that the publicity surrounding these cheerful givers might further diminish public support for government funding of science.
There are issues about the funding of science.
However, he has some worrisome opposition to federal funding of science and an ambiguous relationship with net neutrality.
It is time to bring the same level of careful analysis to the funding of science that we bring to the bench when conducting science.
"Subcritical funding of science may not help the country in the long run," says physicist Krishan Lal, president of the Indian National Science Academy here.
The recent global increase of environmental degradation has come from exploitative resource use and mismanagement, as well as the domination of economic activity in the management and funding of science.
But the proportion of private, corporate, funding of science compared to that of public funding has been increasing, thus calling into question the effectiveness of a model that presupposes largely public control (Mirowski and Sent 2002, Krimsky 2003).
