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Re:Science Is Getting Less Bang for Its Buck by buboard on Friday November 16, 2018 @02:49PM (#18471454)
it's huge. Similar in an european ERC-funded lab: the PI is constantly traveling, there is little oversight of the work let alone actual scientific output. It feels like a large portion of the funding is designed to keep a lot of people people busy doing nothing.
Re:Science Is Getting Less Bang for Its Buck by nonbel on Friday November 16, 2018 @03:43PM (#18471796)
At least the US government treats it like a "jobs program", just like everything else.