ARRAnt nonsense
June 10, 2009
This isn’t going to irritate scientists at all. I am now looking at the second mid-course correction on stimulus strategy from our friends in Program land.
By mid-course, naturally, I mean after the applications were already submitted.
One of the subtle* aspects of NIH grant review that interests me is the competition between independence of review and other more practical matters. As you will recall, the meat of the review is generally three individuals who are assigned to the application as primary, secondary and tertiary reviewers. Up until very recently, the identity of the other reviewers on grants to which an individual was assigned were made available at the start.
This is an obvious violation of the independence of review, is it not?
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