Re:Researchers create gel that regrows tooth enamel (2015)
by leephillips on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @07:03PM
(#13274760)
All you say is true; I was trying to give a coarser-grained description. It applies to cases like this. Someone with a new idea for regrowing tooth enamel is going to apply to some program within NIH (I guess). He's not likely to get funded because a congressperson read a pop-sci article - his proposal will be reviewed by other researchers in dental health.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Researchers create gel that regrows tooth enamel (2015)
by lvs on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @07:23PM
(#13274846)
And that's true microscopically, but year-over-year the flow of money down the pipe is indeed controlled by political whims. In the Bush years, we had some grants granted by an agency that were ultimately only partially allocated by Congress for subsequent years, so that we ended up with only a fraction of what our overall budget was supposed to be by the end of a multiyear grant.