Lincoln liberal, 2nd inaugural enthusiast.
Information processing in networks. Brains, models, lasers.
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Mark Histed
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Yep. Money innovates. Stability of funding innovates.
Also I can't help note the use of "reform" is evocative of the "school reform" movement, which was aimed by some conservative donors at destroying public schools.
The rest of the piece is good. So I'm dunking more on the dunk than on the main argument.
if @nationalacademies.org folds on this topic, it will just embolden the attackers.
Stand up for scientific truth and honesty, or pack it all in. Values matter and if we don't stand up for our values, what do we have?
Sometimes people have big datasets and linear regressions and think that is the full and complete way to analyze a complex system.
(aka quantbrain-ism, 538 disease, chartcel-ism)
More humility about what data can tell us is often warranted.
Our Pulitzer-winning "Friends of the Court" series began with this story that revealed how SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas had, for 20+ years, been treated to undisclosed luxury vacations by real estate titan and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow.
(Published April 2023)
Drug Monkey
"a growing coalition of reformers has concluded the research project grant (RPG) approach used by many science funders in the United States and based on competitive, investigator-initiated, and peer-reviewed proposals cannot support transformative science."
This is limited, quant-brain thinking
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon)
Itâs often overlooked how much high-risk research in the US was driven by the BRAIN Initiative. Why?
In part because of the design of the programs, but mostly because it injected a lot of money and increased grant success rates.
Thereâs a lesson there. The hypercompetition of low success ratesâŠ
Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. âItâs incomprehensible to me tha...
âThe scientific strides stand to send shock waves through the energy sectorâŠ
The commercial stakes are enormous. A 2022 analysis found that fossil fuel companies could face cumulative losses of âover $100 billion in the most severe litigation outcomeâŠâ
NASEM has to stand strong on this. đ§Ș
