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Because universities took strident positions and became the academic wing of the Democrat party, they increasingly forfeited trust.

This is the most spiritually important place in the world to the aboriginal Australians. The Anangu people who live here, named this place Uluru, and their culture, blood and mythology have been bonded with this land for sixty thousand years.

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.

Given that the current system is onerous and likely flawed, you would imagine that NIH leadership has repeatedly tested whether the current method is superior than say a modified lottery, aka having an initial screen and then randomly giving out the money.

Software can be rebuilt, because software is a machine. But a software ecosystem is not a machine.

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.

What makes a given information processing system useful to an organization isn’t how much information it generates or even the raw amount of information it can process. Rather, [Simon argues], “the crucial question is how much information it will allow to be withheld from the attention of other parts of the system… To be an attention conserver for ... See more

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 resea... See more

Current NIH RO1 grants are 20 pages of science and 80 pages of fluff.