FLICKR, THOMAS HAWK
It's a perennial complaint among scientists: grant writing takes up too much time. “I think that there's pretty much wide agreement that scientists have to spend a lot of time to write proposals, to review proposals, to write progress reports, final reports, and do lots of things that are not necessarily contributing to science,” said John Ioannidis, a professor at Stanford University's School of Medicine.
But it isn't just time that's spent unwisely, but billions and billions of dollars that could be allocated in smarter ways, Ioannidis wrote in a comment in today's Nature. The Scientist spoke with Ioannidis about his ideas to fix science funding in the United States.
The Scientist: What are the current problems with the way science is funded in America?
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