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Many academic centers have teams of staff to help prepare them. NIH should eliminate these paper requirements and universities should lay off these staff. NIH can eliminate people who read this paperwork. We don’t need to pay someone to dig a hole, and pay someone else to fill it back in.

nstead, I would rather see us conduct studies, repeatedly, to learn of our processes are efficient. I would like to see us incentivize reproducibility. And then, if we are able to deliver, I would like to see the percent of funding going to science increase. I believe that in a working society, 10% of health care spending should be on medical... See more

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on March 20 that will facilitate the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, taking a step toward fulfilling a campaign pledge.

We should randomize investigators to an RO1 cap at 2 vs not and study the effects.

Within the next decade, we will need to make important decisions: whether to program novel viruses to fight diseases, what genetic privacy will look like, who will “own” living organisms, how companies should earn revenue from engineered cells, and how to contain a synthetic organism in a lab.

Software can be rebuilt, because software is a machine. But a software ecosystem is not a machine. It is a living system. When we attempt to rebuild the ecosystem , we’re making a category error. We’re confusing the software for the ecological process unfolding around it.

Deep in the very heart of Australia, amid a vast, arid, featureless plain, now known as the Amadeus Basin, you will discover a great wonder of the world and a great mystery.

ou might wonder if study section leaders are the best scientists. Rest assured. They aren't. They are typically mid career, mediocre scientists. (This is not just a joke, data support this claim see www.drvinayprasad.com). They rarely have written extremely influential papers.

n Computer Power and Human Reason, Weizenbaum insists that “humans and computers are not species of the same genus,” since humans “face problems no machine could possibly be made to face.