>In many cases it's scientists who decide if existing funding is used on many small studies or few large ones, and which studies in particular. In my experienc

>In many cases it's scientists who decide if existing funding is used on many small studies or few large ones, and which studies in particular. In my experience it works out more like, scientists make their studies as big as funding will allow for while tracking and justifying every single expenditure to your grant providers who can withdraw funding if they're not happy with the way their money's being used.