The Chronicle of Higher Education

Science Suffers When Getting a Grant Becomes the Goal

The perception that academic scientists must pursue money from government agencies like the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health is subverting the aims of science and making it harder for institutions and individual professors to do innovative and original research.

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