How do scientist get their funds?

Answer 1

The government gives them your money.

Answer 2

Scientists get money by creating a make-believe fairy tale such as global warming and scaring ignorant people into funding them.

Imagine this: a traveling salesman drives into town. He starts yelling at everyone that a horde of alligators is just around the corner and they must do something to stop it. He offers them a supply of alligator repellant in order to save them. The townspeople hold an emergency meeting and decide the alligator repellant is their only hope, so they buy the reasonably priced repellant and spray the outskirts of town.
Lo and behold, the alligators never come! It's a miracle. The alligator repellant worked perfectly.
Of course the truth is that there were no alligators to begin with.

Answer 3

They apply for funds to "funding bodies", which might be government departments, private business, pressure groups, charities, universities and a hundred other souces. Usually by producing a synopsis of their intended research and where they hope it might lead to an overseeing committee or other body within those frameworks.
It is usually far from easy to get funds, and they are usually not very well paid for pure research, which is why so many teach as well.

Answer 4

Grants, either from government agencies (NSF, NIH), private companies, or funding agencies like the American Chemical Society.

Answer 5

Either government money set aside for Research & Development, corporate sponsors, or private donors.

Answer 6

Invent them

Answer 7

hospitals
private employers
government

Answer 8

That is a can of worms. What you heard?