Source: http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/comment\/letters\/10870609\/The-damaging-bureaucracy-of-academic-peer-preview.html<\/p>\n
Peer preview is now virtually unavoidable and its bureaucratic, protracted procedures are repeated for every change in direction or new phase of experimentation or for whatever an applicant might subsequently propose. Consequently, support for research that might lead to major new scientific discoveries is virtually forbidden nowadays, and science is in serious danger of stagnating. Many scientists privately deplore these policies but their professional standing often depends on their acquiescence \u2013 a catch-22 that effectively diminishes public opposition to the policies. We call upon funding agencies to support sustained, open-ended research in unfashionable fields.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Donald W Braben<\/strong> John F Allen<\/strong> William Amos<\/strong> Richard Ball<\/strong> Tim Birkhead<\/strong> Peter Cameron<\/strong> Richard Cogdell FRS<\/strong> David Colquhoun FRS<\/strong> Rod Dowler<\/strong> Irene Engle<\/strong> Felipe Fern\u00e1ndez-Armesto<\/strong> Desmond Fitzgerald<\/strong> John Hall<\/strong> Pat Heslop-Harrison<\/strong> Dudley Herschbach<\/strong> H Jeff Kimble<\/strong> Sir Harry Kroto FRS<\/strong> James Ladyman<\/strong> Peter Lawrence FRS<\/strong> Angus MacIntyre FRS<\/strong> John Mattick FAA<\/strong> Beatrice Pelloni<\/strong> Douglas Randall<\/strong> David Ray<\/strong> Sir Richard J Roberts FRS<\/strong> Ken Seddon<\/strong> Colin Self<\/strong> Harry Swinney<\/strong> Claudio Vita-Finzi FBA<\/strong> Source: http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/comment\/letters\/10870609\/The-damaging-bureaucracy-of-academic-peer-preview.html The damaging bureaucracy of academic peer preview Academic funding agencies should support research in unfashionable fields \u00a010:35PM BST 02 Jun 2014 \u00a0 SIR \u2013 Under current policies, academic researchers must submit their proposals to a small group of their closest competitors \u2013 their peers \u2013 for consideration before they might be funded. Peers … Continue reading The damaging bureaucracy of academic peer preview \u2013 Telegraph<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfallen.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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