Comment by userbinator
2 days ago
(2021)
Together, we can force the community to reckon with its own shortcomings, and develop stronger, better, and more scientific norms. It is a harsh treatment, to be sure – a chemotherapy regimen that risks destroying us entirely. But this is our best shot at destroying the cancer that has infected our community.
And now, nearly 4 years later, research funding gets DOGE'd...
Yup. and MAHA'd. The question is: what comes next? Once the current administration executes their democratic mandate to destroy institutions, how should we rebuild those capabilities?
In this case, how could the federal government ensure that academic funding flows to researchers and institutions that are doing genuinely high quality research? How can we remove funding from low-quality and fraudulent actors?