This has set my blood boiling today. I’m not in health-related #research, but the #naturalsciences and engineering research council in #canada (#NSERC) has a very similar process for evaluating investigator-led research proposals and having non-scientists apply secret #criteria to reorder the rankings made by peer review is an utter #betrayal
I would honestly prefer a pure #lottery to this cabal of #bureaucrats applying secret criteria to advance undisclosed #strategic objectives. We have many avenues for the #government to #fund research on their strategic #priorities. Hijacking investigator-led #research is unnecessary and total perfidy.
https://academic.oup.com/spp/article/49/3/365/6463570