Every day that the Earth Sphere Federation does not exist is a better day for it.
I’ve been seeing in professors the result of the cutoff and scoring obsession and weird focuses of the NIH grant system. If I were head of NIH, I would say “We’re obsessing about the scores of these grants to level that exceeds our ability to tell good research from bad. How bout we just take an amount of grants that’s 4x the amount we can fund, and just randomly draw ¼ of those.“
Also, when I am Comrade General Secretary of the Socialist States of America, that’s how I’m allocating capital.

