Cross posted from Nature’s The Great Beyond blog.
Can a billion dollars in extra research money ever be a bad thing? A new article in the New England Journal of Medicine, from three American academics raises this question.
When the $787-billion US stimulus package was unveiled last year many scientists were extremely pleased to see that huge wads of dollar bills would be flung their way. Among the happiest were medical researchers working in comparative effectiveness research (CER).
Their historically underfunded discipline was awarded a cool $1.1 billion. Now Daniel Martin, Maureen Maguire and Stuart Fine look this gift horse in the mouth.