Now, the way Kickstarter works is that no money is actually granted to a project until it completely reaches its funding goal.
The first five studies were actually on grant proposals, a type of research proposal written to request government or private funding.
But in the chaos of the crash site, this seems an unlikely scenario: there is no sign that the broad access promised by the rebels to the crash site is actually being granted.
The finding is consistent with what Steneck has seen, including a 1996 study that found that people who had gone through a training course were actually more willing to grant "honorary authorship" to colleagues who had not performed research than were those who had not been trained.
Comparing a list of federal grants for at-risk kids in inner-city schools against Census Bureau Zip Codes, he found that two-thirds of the grants were actually going to schools in the suburbs.
However, only 185 NIH grants were actually awarded to African American PIs between 2000 2006, meaning that 152 PIs and their graduate, postdoctoral, and undergraduate trainees were potentially deprived of vital funding.
What is clear is that on Jan . 4 1863, one week from the day (Dec. 28, 1862) on which Paducah's Jews were actually expelled, President Abraham Lincoln ordered Grant to revoke the controversial edict.
Now I'm wondering what other statistics that we take for granted are actually completely false.
The link between these two measures, while often taken for granted, is actually far from being understood and often controversial and lopsided.
For example, it recently dawned on us that the term "movies," which we all take for granted, is actually a cute colloquial abbreviation of "moving pictures," which is quite literally what the viewer experienced when watching early films.
