Science — Brown 290 (5497): 1701 by James Robert Brown, professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.

This is a classic article from December 2000, well cited, and worth revisiting today.

Teaching and research at universities is increasingly funded from private sources. In this essay, Brown highlights the problems associated with this approach and calls for a return to largely public funding. He argues that the public, rather than corporations or individual scientists or even secretive governments, should own the results.

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