The Cancer Institute funds clinical trials primarily through 10 "cooperative groups" of experts.
Even groups of experts work properly only when they allow space for dissenting voices to be considered.
"But if we are able to launch working groups of experts, we will be able to have more substantive and specific talks and negotiations".
The meeting set out a road map for overhauling regulations in a wide range of areas, and assigned the work to groups of experts.
It is in the nature of groups of experts (which is precisely what peer-review panels are) to know both each other and each other's most promising acolytes.
They started with focus groups of experts, and then hired 12 young political scientists, ethnographers, photographers and others to visit neighborhoods in pairs.
The discussions have often been arcane and jargon-ridden, and usually confined to small groups of experts in particular countries or even particular services.
Redistribute the groups "jigsaw" fashion, forming new groups composed of at least one member from each of the previous groups (this will create groups of "experts" in which there is one member familiar with each of the categories about Libya).
Groups of experts had already been set up during the Clinton administration and used to discuss reductions in offensive weapons and ideas on defensive systems, the American official said.
Governments engaged in higher education policymaking have frequently used the "big public review" to create political cover, using independent groups of experts – rather than ministers – to suggest unpopular policies.
In particular, allegedly nonpartisan groups of "experts" — the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, the Concord Coalition, and so on — have been all too successful at hijacking the economic policy debate, shifting its focus from jobs to deficits.
