Its not as easy to do science as they make it seem on TV. If you don't have the cash, you have to show what you have and write a grant for more. If you don't have the results, you need a grant to pay for them. Oh dear, seems we have a bit of a loop forming, don't we?
A tale of a scientist at wits end and the disasters that follow.
A warning: Later comics will contain macro and vore more or less in Godzilla style.