he who pays, owns. If a private fund ‘grants’ a donation to a university, it’s naive to think there are no strings attached.
But, why would any university put itself in a position of dependence this easily?
Have universities always been a business in the United States?
Am I forgetting something?
Not from the us but scientific research is usually very costly . They need funding to stay at the technological edge and therefore accept funding and therefore do some “shady” studies or whatever strings you might imagine.