HOW AND WHY ASSURED SCIENCE WAS FOUNDED
Please read in sequence from Essay 1 to Essay 7
1: The Turn, away from the traditional system
A first-hand, inside-out account of how the traditional system changed over the last 15 years and how it affected a scientist and his science.
Read Full Essay2: The Move, toward developing a new system
Knowledge from success and failure within the traditional system provides the framework for developing the new system for scientific research.
Read Full Essay3: Overview of the traditional system
It is a paradox that the traditional system aims to capture groundbreaking researchers and projects that rarely depend on it but poorly serves the vast majority of them that critically depend on it.
Read Full Essay4: Funding problems in the traditional system
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At least another 50-60% of research projects could be funded and the grant selection process impedes progress.
Read Full Essay5: Mechanism problems in the traditional system
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The way grants are selected for funding is highly inefficient at many levels, induces scientists to use gaming strategies, and tends to exclude scientists who are also very valuable to science.
Read Full Essay6: Data problems in the traditional system
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The majority of data are too idiosyncratic, incomplete, un-validated, un-integrated, incoherent, and unwieldy to foster efficient and rapid progress.
Read Full Essay7: Clues used in designing the new system for research
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