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Eyes on the PrizeFrom: Bert Gold (bgold@itsa.ucsf.EDU)Thu Jun 6 14:25:30 1996
Doctors, NIH has just announced its plans for a MAJOR OVERHAUL of the RESEARCH Grant allocation system. Kieth Yamamoto, here at UCSF, is already objecting and has apparently drafted his own plan. In the next several days you will view a petition which I have drafted and which I would like your help in circulating. It will provide for a plan which is BETTER and more RELIABLE at LEVELING the playing field than either Keith or NIH has yet proposed. I have spoken with literally hundreds of scientists over the past two years about this issue. Many of the most prominent have confided to me that the current system is unfair, unworkable and unreasonable but have told me that 'human nature' prevents a change for the better. Nonetheless, many have shared their very best suggestions and thoughts with me. I doubt, however, that I have heard every possible salutary suggestion for changing the current system... Therefore, I would like to invite you to send me your very wisest thoughts about how we can change the system for the allocation of research funds in the US so that our children can again begin to prosper from the intellectual harvest of plenty of our nation. We are an intellectually rich country, but we have not in the past few years been acting the part. Vannevar Bush was not wrong in saying that research is an 'endless frontier'. It is... But the leaders of science (and public policy) have apparently forgotten this truth. We are human, and so we have many frailties, but the system can indeed be changed for the better! I am convinced that our children can live in a world better than our own. I need your help and support in this endeavor; there are many self-interested forces who will oppose me (and us), but making a good future for ourselves and our families is worth a concerted effort now. Keep your eyes on the prize.
-- Bert Gold, Ph.D. "Seeing much, Suffering much, University of California, San Francisco and studying much, School of Medicine These are the three pillars Program in Medical Genetics of learning." -- Benjamin Disraeli
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