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A study section which wants to "protect its turf" will seize on the statement "fostering the health and propagation of disciplines is not the function of NIH, but rather of universities" as an excuse to shoot down basic research proposals by people who they perceive as being outside their own discipline. .
"In the lead up to this shoot, we did research and outreach with our community that made it clear that there was ambiguity, fear, passion and confusion associated with the word 'feminism.' We wanted to set the record straight," Thuot wrote.
Schechter (DISCLOSURE: my colleague and business partner at the Globalvision) was so far ahead of the curve that he managed to research, shoot and edit an entire documentary predicting the coming collapse (In Debt We Trust: America Before the Bubble Bursts) literally years before it unfolded.
The basic science is sound, and I don't think it is at this juncture especially fruitful to "teach the debate" when deliberating about policy.I suspect that the reason left-leaning academics and journalists are so ready to tout research shooting holes in the law of demand has more to do with politics than a dogged commitment to truth in economic science.
Arts people have good access to the media and the howlaround of disappointment, though wholly justified in particular cases, in general failed to notice the green shoots, the unglamorous research, the longer game of Treasury stalking, Arts Council reform and the identification of key targets.
"The consequences were remarkable," says Salas. "The number of scientists and the quality of the research shot up in a very short time".
"The shooting is the research," he says.
(Along the way, he got sidetracked by the story of the Donner Party, and interrupted his research to shoot a short documentary on the subject).
When we shrink investments in higher education and research, "we shoot ourselves in both feet," remarked K.R. Sridhar, founder of Bloom Energy, the Silicon Valley fuel-cell company.
