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scripps.edu/translational
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    Eric Topol‏Verified account @EricTopol 2 Jan 2019

    Research funding, as currently practiced, is remarkably inefficient. 2 scientists use economic theory of contests to suggest it's time for partial lotteries and new approaches. https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000065&type=printable … @PLOSBiology by Kevin Gross @ncstate & @CT_Bergstrom @UW re: @NIH @NSF grantspic.twitter.com/m7mR7P8B5S

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      2. David Usharauli‏ @3DiMMUNE 2 Jan 2019
        Replying to @EricTopol @PLOSBiology and

        if it was up to me I would close down 90% of labs randomly [to be fair] and remaining 10% of random labs will be still sufficient to generate all the necessary advances.

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      3. Khaled Alkharsah, PhD‏ @alkharsah_k 3 Jan 2019
        Replying to @3DiMMUNE @EricTopol and

        Shutting dowm so much laboratories would mean requiring fewer people to review and blog about research, what do you think?

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      1. Francisco Marty, MD‏Verified account @FranciscoMarty_ 2 Jan 2019
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        @ACasadevall1

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      1. Elia Magrinelli‏ @EliaMagrinelli 2 Jan 2019
        Replying to @EricTopol @PLOSBiology and

        Also ICYMI, del Alamo, from the EMBO program, drew similar conclusions reviewing the efficency of their second peer-review step for the postdoc funding selection.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/12/08/481655 …

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      1. Elia Magrinelli‏ @EliaMagrinelli 3 Jan 2019
        Replying to @EricTopol @PLOSBiology and

        Not totally agreeing on "funding researchers based on past scientific success instead of proposals for future work." as one of their proposal says. This can easily fall in the raining in rich get richer scenario

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      1. Thomas Welch‏ @ThomasWelch15 3 Jan 2019
        Replying to @EricTopol @PLOSBiology and

        Thomas Welch Retweeted Ivan Oransky

        https://twitter.com/ivanoransky/status/1080824766972522497?s=21 …

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        Ivan OranskyVerified account @ivanoransky
        A new study finds that "trials were more likely to be positive if an author had received honoraria or consulting fees from the sponsoring drug company." https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/907171 …
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      2. Armela Dino‏ @ArmelaDi 3 Jan 2019
        Replying to @EricTopol @JeromeNoailly and

        This is very difficult. Public research funding follows generic public funding regulations, ie: competitive systems of a sort are a norm.

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      3. Jerome Noailly‏ @JeromeNoailly 3 Jan 2019
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        Problems are 1) in EU, national investments in R&D are extremely uneven. The EC is overwhelmed by proposals since EU funding is too often the only instrument for transversal research. Result: huge efforts & < 5% success in most calls. 2) Poor and non-instructive proposal reviews

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      1. Robin Hanson‏Verified account @robinhanson 3 Jan 2019
        Replying to @EricTopol @PLOSBiology and

        Yes, its an old but good point that prizes should be more effective than grants, as its easier for evaluators to judge past work than future work.

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      1. Ian Lucas‏ @ilucas1a 3 Jan 2019
        Replying to @EricTopol @PLOSBiology and

        Australia's National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy stepped away from "beauty contest" approach to funding allocation, and it works.

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