Post #2357542

@mike@sauropods.win @mpe@hcommons.social But, you will say, hasn't the government, like, forever decided which grant proposals get funded, and which do not? Well, no. The NSF for example has used external peer reviewers to evaluate research proposals. And yes, obviously those reviews are based on the content of the grant proposals - that's the whole game, right?. But those reviewers _are not the government_, which is kept at arm's length in the decision making process. This helps to keep it constitutional.