Three quarters of the researchers awarded $257 million in recent government funding had their applications “nit-picked” by the funding agency’s chief executive, with most of these requiring multiple revisions. The high rate of revisions to applications otherwise deemed outstanding in a peer review process, and an even higher rate of requested revisions to Indigenous research…

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