> And a lot of employment and funding decisions are made by people who aren't experts. Where is this the case? Federally-funded research generally involves ex

> And a lot of employment and funding decisions are made by people who aren't experts. Where is this the case? Federally-funded research generally involves experts. When Congress ascribes budgets to research agencies, those don't come from a vacuum. There are civil servants whose jobs revolves around providing expertise to budgetary oversight. They usually have titles like "program manager."