Walter Bushell wrote:

The job of synthesizing the knowledge of the whole field of nutrition is
not frequently taken up by scientists who also have to labor under the
need to get their labs funded.

This would be the advantage of endowing a professorship in your will.
It gives independence to a scholar or scientist. It's a dream.

Do you suppose that someone with Taubes
take on human nutrition is going to get any of his work funded by
Kellogg's, ADM or General Foods?

Or Quaker Oats or Con Agra or any other grain based food company.
There's the Beef Board I guess.