ScienceWoman discussed one of my favorite* StockCritiques™ of grant proposal review in a recent post. The StockCritique™ in question is the observation that since the investigators on the grant proposal have no prior publications which include a scientific technique which is central to the present proposal, this diminishes the overall scientific merit of the proposal. Said critique is levied most often at younger, less established investigators and many of us have seen this one a time or two. Others of us fear this StockCritique™ to the point of letting it dictate our proposals a little too much. I have some thoughts including my usual defense of highly annoying reviewer behavior after the jump.
PBS attempts balanced report on animal research, falls short
August 21, 2008
I note that PBS has a segment under it’s “Religion & Ethics newsweekly” website entitled “Animal Testing Ethics”. The page has both the video segment and a written transcript. From all appearances they appear to be trying to present a balanced look at animal research but they either fall into some imbalanced framing traps or intended to strike an imbalanced tone overall.
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