There is unhappiness in the world of science funding in Canada. Some are saying the peer review process at NSERC is broken. Proposals are now ranked through a process of binning, yet this may promote gaming the system. And the reviewers themselves are distancing themselves from the outcome. "They agreed to play the game and they played it to the best of their abilities, yet they do not want to own it. They may have good reasons for doing so. But what is the role of the EG executive committees, NSERC staff and management, as well as the various internal and external consultative panels in all this mess, and where does the responsibility lie?" There is, argue some, a real risk of the politicization of Canadian research.
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