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I Served on Grant Review Panels for 12 Years. Let's Not Romanticize NIH Peer Review.
The article discusses the author's 12-year experience on federal scientific review panels, highlighting colleagues' seriousness and expertise while critiquing the process as less objective and mechanical than perceived.
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