- Author of SOPA, Lamar Smith, is introducing a bill that would remove the peer-review process from NSF funding. Making research funding decided by political criteria http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2013/04/us-lawmaker-proposes-new-criteri-1.html 64 comments politics
- The new chairman of the House science committee has drafted a bill that would replace peer review at the NSF with a set of funding criteria chosen by Congress. http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2013/04/us-lawmaker-proposes-new-criteri-1.html 1014 comments science
Linking pages
- SOPA's daddy is now in charge of government science funding, and he hates peer-review | Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2013/04/30/sopas-daddy-is-now-in-charge.html?amp%3Butm_medium=twitter 66 comments
- Politics of Public Research Funding | Science-Based Medicine http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/politics-of-public-research-funding/ 0 comments