Partisan Politics and Scientific Peer Review

AIP FYI: Eighteen Former NSF Assistant Directors Criticize House Science Committee Bill and Inquiry
“The draft bill mandates a certification process for NSF awards that frankly requires the Director to accurately predict the future. The history of scientific discovery suggests this is just not feasible and we, as former federal science and technology executives, would suggest many basic research projects in every field supported by the NSF would likely not qualify for certification under this bill. This would be shortsighted, in our opinion since some of our greatest discoveries and innovations were unexpectedly born from basic research.”
Injecting Partisan Politics into Scientific Peer Review, earlier post