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Thursday, October 23, 2008

news item: Gates Foundation Awards $100,000 grants (non-peer review)



Flying Syringes and Other Bold Ideas - washingtonpost.com

"In making its picks, the foundation has rejected the widespread practice of peer review -- assigning other specialists in a field to evaluate research -- because, in the words of Tadataka Yamada, the foundation's director of global health, "peer review -- by definition almost -- excludes innovation because innovation has no peers."

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