Interesting... Over the past year I was tickling the idea of making an organization/company/website which automatically would give tax dollars to research. The idea being, you can maximize the amount you right off in taxes and donate to research you desire (i.e. more NASA, less children killed around the globe).
The idea stemmed from the the idea that people want access to research (public) AND reproducible. The funds would go directly to research groups, and as an incentive, reproducibility would have bounties based on what people were willing to donate. Because virtually every research group with public research is supported by a non-profit, no one losses additional money, but more funds go towards public interest research GROUPS not organizations with bureaucracy.
Somewhat off topic, but this seems another reason for me to start the project.
The idea stemmed from the the idea that people want access to research (public) AND reproducible. The funds would go directly to research groups, and as an incentive, reproducibility would have bounties based on what people were willing to donate. Because virtually every research group with public research is supported by a non-profit, no one losses additional money, but more funds go towards public interest research GROUPS not organizations with bureaucracy.
Somewhat off topic, but this seems another reason for me to start the project.