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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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