Malloy Presents Details of $2 Billion Plan For UConn

[upstater]

Peer reviewed? What's that? There's at least 5 graduate papers and dissertations written every year about thr corruption and politics and nepotism and favoritism of Peer Review


Even the Tooth Fairy giggles at Peer Review as a politically pure process of writing the specs, grading the proposals, and awarding grants.


Hint: Search for "Peer Review Bias" at Yahoo and come up with 235,000 hits. I don't have access to the Academic Journal libraries at home but there's at least 5 decent papers every year published on the "Peer Review " fallacy usually by stat or political science grad students.


What's next? State RFPs and the "Neutral" process of writing the specs and grading the applicants and proposals as overseen by the Tooth Fairy of Academic Purity?

I'll try to explain this to you again. I was answering your claim about the B1G's lobbying arm. If you're talking about the CIC, that group's aim is at peer reviewed grants from the national academies. You provided a link to political pork barrel research grants which were subject to horse-trading by congressman. In fact, the grants you showed were construction grants, not even related to research! In other words, this is not the type of thing that the CIC is interested in, nor the type of thing the AAU takes notice of. It is the type of thing Nebraska excelled at landing especially as it related to agriculture, and that's exactly why Nebraska was kicked out of the AAU.

 

[HobokenHusky]

I'll try to explain this to you again. I was answering your claim about the B1G's lobbying arm. If you're talking about the CIC, that group's aim is at peer reviewed grants from the national academies. You provided a link to political pork barrel research grants which were subject to horse-trading by congressman. In fact, the grants you showed were construction grants, not even related to research! In other words, this is not the type of thing that the CIC is interested in, nor the type of thing the AAU takes notice of. It is the type of thing Nebraska excelled at landing especially as it related to agriculture, and that's exactly why Nebraska was kicked out of the AAU.

Just had to look up "pork barrel" and "horse-trading" to decode your post, so thank you for that. Your use of political idioms actually managed to make it sound like we were set back 100 years and still the Connecticut school of Agriculture, dealing in both the bartering of pork and horses.

 

[upstater]

Just had to look up "pork barrel" and "horse-trading" to decode your post, so thank you for that. Your use of political idioms actually managed to make it sound like we were set back 100 years and still the Connecticut school of Agriculture, dealing in both the bartering of pork and horses.

I suppose there will be a new set of idioms dealing with spending for high-tech. Mutant-breeding? Server-farming?

 

[geordi]

As long as that's all you do with the goat...

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That's not a goat! It's a sheep! And with HFD, in the words of the immortal Danny DiVito, 'No sheep will be safe tonight.'