Science funding agencies feel political pressure to fund only research that is easy to explain and defend to lay members of the public and to Members of Congress, the vast majority of whom are not trained as scientists. And the kind of research that tends to be easier to…
A New NIH Director—What Should We Be Looking For? By Stuart Buck and Eric GilliamThanks for reading The Good Science Project! Subscribe for free to…
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The NIH has called for comments by April 24 on a proposed policy that would streamline peer review of grant proposals. Here’s a graphic of the proposed…
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It has been well over a year since Francis Collins announced his retirement as NIH Director. Since Dec. 20, 2021, his former deputy Larry Tabak has been…
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Many scientists have criticized the NIH’s main grant mechanism (R01) as too focused on preliminary data, too conservative and incremental, etc.Thanks…
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Below are some short comments that the Good Science Project filed on two White House requests for information on clinical trials. We are optimistic that…
We should set up a Clinical Trial Committee at NIH that would have primary responsibility for strategizing and governing NIH’s current funding of…
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It’s easy to get so tied up in domestic issues that we forget there are other countries in the world that fund science, often with substantially…
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