Hennessy earned six hundredand seventy-one thousand dollars in salary from Stanford last year, but he has made far more as a board member of and shareholder in Google and Cisco.
After all, what is it worth being able to drive across bridges without fear of plunging to certain death? (By my calculations our bridge failure rate is one in three hundredand fifty thousand).
Onehundred fifty thousand dollars could pay for all of these things combined -- investments in education and research that are essential to economic growth that benefits all of us.
For every thousand sheep and cattle slaughtered in Britain, and for every hundred animals involved in experiments, less than one fox is killed by hounds.