Alternatively, in a recent piece entitled "How Federal Funding Mechanisms Stifle Basic Biomedical Research" (The Scientist, Aug. 21, 1995, page 10), Edith Rosenberg of the Howard University School of Medicine expresses the belief that it is "basic science" that is being poorly reviewed and that "applied science, which requires the collaboration of many diverse people with their support staff and specialized instruments, has generally received the lion's share of research funds distributed by NIH."
In another piece in the same August 21 issue of The Scientist, titled "NIH Study Section Members Acknowledge Major Flaws In The Reviewing System" [R. Finn, page 1], Howard Schachman, ombudsman to the NIH director, is quoted as saying, "There's one group of people who will say: 'I never heard of those reviewers, they're a bunch of young kids,' and another group that will say: 'Look, it's the old boy's network; no wonder I didn't get ...
