Researchers: Peer review system for awarding NIH grants is flawed

Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - 14:34 in Mathematics & Economics

The mechanism used by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to allocate government research funds to scientists whose grants receive its top scores works essentially no better than distributing those dollars at random, new research suggests.

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