We already have many times more brilliant scientists than we can fund.
Could you give some evidence for this assertion? My feeling from the “inside” is quite the reverse—at least in the States, NSF funding has remained stagnant, and grant allocation is widely considered a “black box” with high uncertainty in outcomes. I’ve visited three other countries in the past two years, and the feeling there seemed much the same.
Could you give some evidence for this assertion? My feeling from the “inside” is quite the reverse—at least in the States, NSF funding has remained stagnant, and grant allocation is widely considered a “black box” with high uncertainty in outcomes. I’ve visited three other countries in the past two years, and the feeling there seemed much the same.