Scientific funding could produce quality research results
By Hicbd
Tue Jun 23 2020 10:44 am
- One straightforward way to ameliorate these problems would be for governments to simply increase the amount of money available for science. (Or, more controversially, decrease the number of PhDs.)
- Bring more stability and predictability into the funding process.
- Foundations and agencies could fund specific people and labs for a period of time rather than individual project proposals.
- Alternatively, researchers in the journal mBio recently called for a lottery-style system. Proposals would be measured on their merits, but then a computer would randomly choose which get funded
- Pharmaceutical companies ought to pool the money they use to fund drug research, to be allocated to scientists who then have no exchange with industry during study design and execution.
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