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Their wordsResearch funding is badly broken. Scientists spend a large fraction of their time writing grant proposals, which are largely speculative fiction.
Their wordsScientific research is now an industry, for better or worse, and it should be funded like any other industry: by results.
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A pay-per-publication model would increase innovation and decrease waste in research funding.
Their wordsPay-per-pub, as we may call this approach, will unleash a wave of innovation in research funding, increasing the collective intelligence of the system while decreasing waste.
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