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Why Science Funders Should Try to Learn from Past Experience
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…
Stuart Buck
Mar 28
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Looking for a New NIH Director
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…
Stuart Buck
Mar 17
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New Thinking on Peer Review at NIH
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…
Stuart Buck
Mar 7
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February 2023
Controversy Alert: We Should Think About Loosening Conflict-of-Interest Requirements at NIH
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…
Stuart Buck
Feb 28
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The NIH Should Expand Its "Person Not Project" Funding
Many scientists have criticized the NIH’s main grant mechanism (R01) as too focused on preliminary data, too conservative and incremental, etc.Thanks…
Stuart Buck
Feb 19
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How to Improve Clinical Trials in the US
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…
Stuart Buck
Feb 5
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January 2023
The NIH Should Launch a Clinical Trial Committee
We should set up a Clinical Trial Committee at NIH that would have primary responsibility for strategizing and governing NIH’s current funding of…
Stuart Buck
Jan 18
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Interview with a top Swiss scientist
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…
Stuart Buck
Jan 17
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INTERVIEW: Geneticist at a Top 5 University
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…
Stuart Buck
Jan 9
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December 2022
Good Science Project Update for Year-End 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…
Stuart Buck
Dec 21, 2022
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Data, peer review, post-docs . . . and missed opportunities
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…
Stuart Buck
Dec 20, 2022
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Who Is Responsible For Research Fraud Anyway?
The President of Stanford (Marc Tessier-Lavigne) has recently come under investigation for a series of neuroscience papers that apparently had fake…
Stuart Buck
Dec 10, 2022
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