leave basic science to private nonprofits.  It&#x27;s not impossible.  Peter Mitchell discovered the chemiosmotic effect (how the mitochondrion worked) using a private nonprofit...  Janelia Farms is working on some groundbreaking neuro stuff.<p>Peer review of research proposals.  It&#x27;s seriously one of the most broken &#x27;established procedure&#x27; out there.  There is not a single scientist out there that doesn&#x27;t whine about the capriciousness of the grandfunding process, there&#x27;s even a coined term &quot;grantsmanship&quot; which refers to one&#x27;s skill in essentially scamming the government into funding what you want to work on by shoehorning it into their call for proposal.