RUSH: “Have you seen this in the Boston Globe today? This is hilarious. “Tobacco,” Big Tobacco, “Funds Massachusetts Researchers — The nation’s largest cigarette maker has paid for scientific research at four
Massachusetts universities since 2000, a practice that critics of the tobacco industry liken to the Mafia underwriting crime fighting. Philip Morris USA, which makes Marlboro and other top-selling cigarette lines, gave grants to scientists at Boston University, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Massachusetts…”
Now, I don’t care what it was for. The point about this is, universities are just whores and they will take money from anybody. Even while professors on their faculty are out there reaming all these tobacco companies and other
“unacceptable” corporate elements (which, to liberals, would include most corporate elements), while they’re out there ripping them to shreds and trying to destroy ’em, their universities have the hands open and will take money from virtually anyone.”
