This pisses me off. From CATO
Does Public Funding of Science Enhance Scientific Progress?

Everybody supports the public funding of scientific research: industry loves corporate welfare, the universities love the grants, the politicians love the reflected glory, and the general public believes the conventional wisdom previously noted. Terence Kealey argues that science and research are most certainly not public goods and that we could—if we wished—leave R&D solely to the market.

Like Big Tobacco? Pharmaceuticals?