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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Funding for research grants from most of the NIH institutes is down to 5-10% of grants submitted.  Many highly talented researchers with the potential to contribute major advances to science are already closing their research labs and finding new careers.  Others who have been able to hold on are spending an inordinate amount of time perfecting their already outstanding grant applications to get into the funding range.  This results in significant slowing down of their research programs.

Science and technical advancement in the US will soon be eclipsed by research in other countries (e.g. China) where funding is more generous.  The US is loosing the competitive edge and any further reduction in the NIH budget will make this happen even faster.  [/quote]

and yet... so much research turns out to be garbage. cancer research using compromised cell lines. decades of research in social psychology crumbling before our eyes, neuroscience research widely inflated using incorrect statistics... and that's just stuff that has been checked. [/quote]
Are you a scientist?[/quote]

yes[/quote]
Then you should know better that plenty of worthwhile research gets done through the NIH. Anyone can cherry-pick wasteful examples in each field. Throwing the baby out with the bathwater is the solution?

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not saying this is the solution, but to run around like a headless chicken screaming "research! research" is not the solution either.

there clearly exist huge problems in research community - specifically, lack of viable research careers/academic for most phds and way too many bad papers - quantity over quality type. apart from a top 5% research superstars, most researchers are paid laughable wages. likes, nurses and accountants make significantly more money in many cases. in parallel, a great amount of worthless research is being published obscuring what is essential and valuable. the medieval model is not working any more. what is the solution i don't know.[/quote]
The DoD also does plenty of research. Is every little thing they do extremely useful, non-repetitive, etc etc? Yet they don't seem to be held to the same standard as the NIH and are in fact getting a huge raise in funding.
 Why is that?[/quote]

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