NIH is using volunteers to review grants and some programs. So same problem applies. I've even seen reviewers stealing the work from grants they reviewed (and n

NIH is using volunteers to review grants and some programs. So same problem applies. I've even seen reviewers stealing the work from grants they reviewed (and noted really badly so it wouldn't get funded) and that same reviewer did it multiple times. Nobody cared at NIH, the program officers said they would look into it and many years later still nothing happened. There is nothing really in place to solve blatant abuse.