The Sad State Of Research Funding: The Best science politics can manufacture! NSF ‘bureaucracies promote top-down science to suit political and administrative ends’
'Often, an agency's request for proposal, or RFP, reads like a legal document, constricting the applicant to stay within very narrow and conventional bounds, with no profound scientific questions posed at all...The topics are almost always related to proposal writing and funding and not to scientific ideas'
