Its time to end buying tones of expensive scientific equipment that at the end of it all, produce only zero citation papers and zero patents. Curiosly after a bunch of projects were exposed as phony, the HEC broke with its past practice and now no longer puts on its websites detailes of HEC- funded projects. It is also time to stop HEC officials and HEC delegates from gallivanting across the globe at public expense on the vaguest of excuses for "fact- finding" mission and conferences.