The whole enterprise of grantwriting is demonstrably a wasteful activity. Grant award decisions are largely due to historical reputation, nepotism and other sor

The whole enterprise of grantwriting is demonstrably a wasteful activity. Grant award decisions are largely due to historical reputation, nepotism and other sorts of special interest. The idea of outsourcing writing research plans to people who don't understand them to generate meaningless pages of feel-goodery is everything that's wrong with science today. People who talk about "the skill of grantwriting" perpetuate this cycle of wasted intellect. Faculty at the top 5 laugh at how many faculty elsewhere are tricked into pursuing this quixotic idea.