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NSF's Entire Science Advisory Board Was Just Fired — Here's Why That Matters
Imagine your university abruptly dismissing all the faculty advisors who vet which research gets funding — suddenly, there's no peer check on what gets greenlit.
This means the bottleneck that separates rigorous science from pet projects just vanished at the nation's top research funding agency, with unclear consequences for what the U.S. prioritizes in science.
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