Randomly determining which grants are funded and which ones are not. This looks like a terrible idea, isn't it?
Well, may be not that bad, as suggested by J. Sills in this recent insight in Science. Indeed, currents systems have their limitations and randomly assigning money to the not so bad, but also not so good grants, the middle 60% might not be such a bad idee. Similar ideas have also been proposed to fix our 'democratic' system by example by D. van Reybrouck in his book 'Against the elections'. Why not the same in science?
Well, may be not that bad, as suggested by J. Sills in this recent insight in Science. Indeed, currents systems have their limitations and randomly assigning money to the not so bad, but also not so good grants, the middle 60% might not be such a bad idee. Similar ideas have also been proposed to fix our 'democratic' system by example by D. van Reybrouck in his book 'Against the elections'. Why not the same in science?
