“The EPSRC is no longer allocating funds on a fair and transparent basis,” the letter says. “Excellence is a secondary consideration. The wealth of talent following new ideas, which could and would compete for such funding, is being side-lined on the whims of administrators. Non-competitive processes, in whatever arena, are a poor investment and such misuse of public funds is deeply worrying.”
This letter is arriving on the same day that another group of another 100 scientists are delivering a coffin to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to protest the death of science.
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