Also worrisome, he said, is the recommendation made earlier this month by a state commission that the current review process for certification for assisted-living projects remain unchanged.
In a letter to the editor in today's Nature, the researchers, who are members of IWC's Scientific Committee, argue that IWC's current review process "is a waste of time" and sorely in need of revision.
Recognizing that older laws had failed, Thailand created the current review process in 1992; a new constitution adopted in 1997 guarantees local communities a voice in national decisions that affect them.
The correctness of a model is an important issue that is poorly addressed by the current review process.
One thing that "is broken in the current review process is that it requires an extraordinary amount of labor on the part of the peer reviewers involved, who remain anonymous [and] do the work for free," says Kathleen Fitzpatrick, director of scholarly communication for the Modern Language Association and a visiting professor at New York University in New York City.
For example, it plans to perform an experiment to review some grants by two committees; one will use the current review process, while the other will review the applications with the names and institutions of the applicants removed.
Fortunately, the F.D.A. has indicated its support for the current review process and will move forward carrying out its own comprehensive improvement plan.
If properly executed, the F.D.A.'s plan will address the lack of clarity and the inconsistencies plaguing the current review process, which negatively affect patients' timely access to life-changing, lifesaving medical technology.
If the FDA approves this GM salmon, it risks undermining its mandate to protect public health". Campaign groups said the current review process did not take adequate account of the sweeping changes in store for the global food supply, once GM food starts hitting the market.
He says artificial intelligence and new policies governing how videos are shared could present solutions to the issue, and that Facebook will try to speed up its current review process.
We will run pilot experiments in which identical grant applications are reviewed by two groups: one that sees and evaluates only the scientific merit of the proposal, and another that sees and evaluates the entirety of the grant proposal according to the current review process.
