Geoffrey Adams on Nostr: The reason for this approach is that while non-scientists in a democracy can and ...

The reason for this approach is that while non-scientists in a democracy can and should set the overall goals for spending public money on biomedical research, only expert scientists have the knowledge to formulate projects that can advance those goals. And the diversity of biomedical research problems mean that the necessary expertise can never be completely housed within NIH, so it's better to let experts compete with each other to produce the best proposals for meeting those goals.

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