Everyone likes to point out the salaries of athletes as absurd yet hardly ever mention the salaries of actors and actresses. It's all in the name of entertainment.
Make scientific research and discovery entertaining to the masses and you'll see the revenue come in.
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Petition for a reality tv series where real scientists compete to cure little-known diseases or solve small-scale issues to win funding for their real research.
Good idea but the logistics wouldn't make for entertaining television. Scientific study is a lot of trial and error with long periods of research and waiting on results with no guaranteed outcome. May be entertaining to a select few but not for the masses, sadly.
Discovery gave up on producing anything intellectual nearly 20 years ago. NatGeo or Science Channel would be the best bet, but then the dilemma of that would be the lack of reach to the masses. It needs to be one of the big 3 non cable channels, ABC, NBC and CBS. That's where the real money is.
I'm pretty sure that if you'd tell scientists that was required for that kind of funding they'd spend an afternoon playing rigged soccer, they'd get twice as much goals and only half the drama
Make scientific research and discovery entertaining to the masses and you'll see the revenue come in.