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The Truth About Our Terrible Funding of Science

Funding is vital for scientific research but there are many problems with the current system of funding. Mainly that it wastes significant time and money, it isn’t a reliable process, and it ends the careers of many great scientists. Research has shown that there is little correlation between grant peer review assessment scores and citation of the research publications [1]. While other research has found that the outcome of the grant review depended more on the reviewer to whom the grant was assigned than the research proposed in the grant [2]. Likewise, another study found that 59% of 620 funded grants were sometimes not funded when random variability was taken into account [3]. Furthermore, a review of a grant application in Canada found that the cost of the application exceeded the cost of giving the average grant allocation to everyone that applied [12]. This all combined show that the grant process is fundamentally flawed and not fit for purpose. Which has led to a serious issue of burnout in science [9] and was made worse due to the pandemic [10]. In the end, Grant applications take a lot of time away from scientific research and can even waste centuries of research time for every grant [4, 5]. Beyond the grant process studies have shown that scientists spend almost 50% of their time not doing research but rather doing additional administrative tasks [6]. Coupled with declining grant money [13-18], this has led to issues where scientists look for funding from industry, which can lead to biased research [7]. While there are proposals to overhaul the grant system with a Lottery [11], there has been little tracking for such ideas, and are yet to see any widefield use. So for the moment, we will be plagued to stay with the current flawed system. There is a nice TEDx talk on some of these issues by *Geraldine Fitzpatrick [8] and* there are some really great articles on some of these topics if you want to read more. [20 - 23] Some references: [1] https://elifesciences.org/articles/13323 [2] (2018) https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1714379115 [3] https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d4797 [4] https://www.nature.com/articles/495314d [5] https://theconversation.com/centuries... [6] https://thefdp.org/default/assets/Fil... [7] https://theconversation.com/with-fede... [8]    • The craziness of research funding. It cost...  ](   • The craziness of research funding. It cost...   [9] https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158... [10] https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158... [11] https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00422- [12] https://doi.org/10.1080/0898962080268... Funding decreasing [13] https://theconversation.com/with-fede... [14] https://www.aaas.org/programs/r-d-bud... [15] https://itif.org/publications/2019/08... [16] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/... [17] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/... [18] https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indi... [19] https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158... Articles [20] https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/20... [21] https://www.vox.com/2016/7/14/1201671... [22] https://innovationfrontier.org/fix-sc... [23] https://issues.org/productive-federal... -- Socials --- Twitter:   / broadwayphysics   Discord:   / discord   Publications: https://scholar.google.com.au/citatio... #science #physics #economics #politics