Please Fund More Science
During the clinton administration, NIH funding doubled over ~5 years.  This led to a glut of PhDs (far, far more than there are faculty slots or biotech jobs) who had limited job options and it didn&#x27;t really translate to higher scientific productivity (in some sense, it just ended up selecting for professors who were more cutthroat and willing to publish lower quality stuff in higher h-index journals).<p>I&#x27;ve also seen, repeatedly, that most biologists (both wet-lab and computational) will just waste more money rather than using it to scale up productivity.<p>The real question is ultimately &quot;how do we scale scientific productivity in a way that benefits humanity directly and in the short term&quot;, and few people have any answer to that.  It seems like the current state of the art, and hard to improve on, is to fund lots of people, give them time to be creative, and then send them to meetings to get tipsy with people who have money, while demonstrating their posters.  I&#x27;m not kidding.