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Re:MIT at center of political power play over campus fusion ... by soup10 on Sunday June 08, 2014 @01:45PM (#7865299)
This fear is part of why we have the absurdly opaque and inefficient grant writing process, in which funds are allocated by the government without so much as interviewing the recipients.
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Re:MIT at center of political power play over campus fusion ... by DaniFong on Sunday June 08, 2014 @09:22PM (#7866579)
+100

Absolutely this is a key factor in why scientific grants have terrible yield vs private funding.

As a former fusion scientist, I saw this coming, and left the field to make my own fortune and direct it towards what I believed the best energy research was.

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