alt Hacker NewsYou're right to be skeptical, but:
> They paid a total of 2 people $50,000.
That's over half a million, in today's dollars.
With inflation, and whatnot, we get numb to what money was, back when.
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deathanatos • last Wednesday at 5:06 PM
… it's $68,404 in today's dollars, according to BLS's inflation calc.
(…your figure works out to a 26% per annum inflation rate. The $50k figure is in 2016 dollars — "the sugar industry paid the Harvard scientists the equivalent of $50,000 in 2016 dollars".)
No, that's already inflation adjusted.
Other way around. To quote the article:
> To conduct the literature review, the sugar industry paid the Harvard scientists the equivalent of $50,000 in 2016 dollars [...]
So it was actually about ~$5,000 in 1965 dollars.