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Becoming a policy entrepreneur (with Tom Kalil)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Pandemic - What Would You Change Your Research Program if You Had More Discipline?

The peer review system is good for screening out really bad ideas, but also screens out ideas that are high risk but high return. NIH can only fund 10 to 20% of the proposals that they get. So it just takes one person on the committee to say, well, I don't think they have enough preliminary data to demonstrate that they can do what they say they want to do.

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