How frequent are studies being funded at that level? Based on the numbers on your website, that study is almost <i>half</i> your total volume.<p>Again, using the numbers on your site:<p>5,615 projects created and 364 funded is a 6.5% success rate. If I&#x27;m going to be pouring energy in to single digit success rates, they need to hit pretty hard - and while you do have some successes, right now their long-tail oddities. If experiment.com takes off and you regularly get R01-sized projects, that&#x27;s awesome. But it&#x27;s just not there yet.<p>And while &quot;big science&quot; does not equal good science, there are some things that just have to be paid for. I&#x27;m not talking about massive grants. And I&#x27;ve got experience doing the whole scrappy underdog thing. It&#x27;s not a zero-sum attitude - it&#x27;s that the effort for crowdfunding at the moment isn&#x27;t necessarily worth what comes out of it. I think your problem is that you&#x27;re conceptualizing your critics as proponents of &quot;Big Science&quot;. I funded by dissertation with grants that aren&#x27;t even approaching big science-type grants, but they brought in way more money than most of the projects on experiments.com, and required, combined, four pages worth of proposals.<p>&gt; Yes, I vehemently believe it&#x27;s a good thing. If we ever approach the levels of science literacy needed to create the adverse effects you&#x27;re hinting at, then that would be fantastic. And, not knowing what&#x27;s worth funding isn&#x27;t a citizen&#x27;s fault, that&#x27;s on the scientist. If scientists were more vocal about their work, new opportunities, and big challenges, then of course the public would be able to identify what&#x27;s worth funding.<p>Would they? [Citation Needed]. I&#x27;m about as science literate as the average citizen could possibly be expected to be, and as I said, I&#x27;ve got no idea what&#x27;s worth funding in fields well past my own.<p>As I&#x27;ve said, I really like the idea of experiments.com. I&#x27;ve considered it in the past. I&#x27;ll keep an eye on it in the future. But right now, suggesting it as an alternative to traditional funding streams, or even industry funding is, at this point, just not realistic.