When NIH/NSF sets funding priorities, provides information on what they think is important, etc, it is natural that scientists will submit applications more hom

When NIH/NSF sets funding priorities, provides information on what they think is important, etc, it is natural that scientists will submit applications more homogeneous than otherwise: Funding keeps the lab going. I wish that they'd instead create a system of block research grants to Universities, who'd then allocate funding. The whole grant process takes up too much time and makes Scientists into perpetual salesman.