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The Fight For Slow And Boring Research—Asterisk

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As federal research funding shrinks, scientists are looking to other sources of support. Can they learn to sell their work without selling out?

The Fight For Slow And Boring Research—Asterisk As federal research funding shrinks, scientists are looking to other sources of support. Can they learn to sell their work without selling out? Since the middle of the twentieth century, the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation have embodied an imperfect social contract : Federal agencies would fund basic research at scale, and in return, that research would serve the public good through medical advances, technological progress, and economic growth. For scientists, this system created a reliable pathway: Do good work,

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