https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/...e_code=1.5E4.WUrw.-fvT1NFmi_4K&smid=url-share The N.I.H. should pioneer a new funding mechanism to support scientific organizations with the flexibility to build that kind of infrastructure. In other words, the future of scientific discovery will likely require more spending on certain kinds of indirect costs, and less on others. Researchers should spend less time writing grant reports and more time exploring unconventional hypotheses.
If we could get them to stop exploring disproven hypotheses it would be a good start. Putting more money into bad research will probably only do harm.
