Nothing is going to change until the people making the rules and awarding the grants stop getting all the money. The whole science funding process is rigged to

Nothing is going to change until the people making the rules and awarding the grants stop getting all the money. The whole science funding process is rigged to favour senior scientists running a feudal hierarchy with themselves at the top. Actually what would be nice to try is a system like the way the polio vaccine was created. At the beginning there were a whole lot of technical and scientific questions that needed to be answered and the march of dimes organisation handed out grants to the various scientists to answer all these questions. One of the biggest problems with the current system is the knowledge gathered often has large gaps that make it impossible to use - no one wants to work on all the boring, gap-filling work that is critical to using a breakthrough.