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…
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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February 2023

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…

January 2023

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…
At the Good Science Project, we've been featuring regular interviews with practicing scientists. One of the chief difficulties in doing so is that many…

December 2022

The Good Science Project officially launched in April 2022. What have we done since then? Perhaps most importantly, we’ve met with dozens of…
Three recent developments to note: First, one of the most exciting events in 2022 is that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) worked with ICPSR (a…
The President of Stanford (Marc Tessier-Lavigne) has recently come under investigation for a series of neuroscience papers that apparently had fake…
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