What do you think?

What do you think?

If you didn’t guess I vote no, then you don’t know me. Even if a politician has a science background, they should not interfere with peer review.

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Originally shared by ScienceSunday

Should politicians be involved with reviewing research proposals?

Bill McGarvey is very familiar with the grant proposal review process for the National Institutes of Health in the USA. The NIH funds the majority of biomedical research in the US. Bill shares an interesting article discussing politicians getting involved in the review process for the National Science Foundation, who fund a lot of basic science research in the US. Because basic science research has minimal immediate impact but often a huge impact long term, it frequently comes under scrutiny by short sighted politicians.

Politics and the National Science Foundation (NSF)

http://goo.gl/JtBje4

This ties in nicely with #ScienceSunday  co-curator Rajini Rao’s post about basic science and long term impact.

Serendipity in Science: Golden Goose Awards

http://goo.gl/E6smir

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