Australia; VIC; QLD
Australian scientists are warning that the peer review system for assessing grant applications is no longer reliable and thus poses an imminent threat to the future direction of Australian science. The researchers say the problem is best highlighted by the "farcical process" of grant reviews by the NHMRC, in which grants are no longer reviewed by a carefully considered and assembled panel of qualified experts; instead, each grant is assigned to four or five anonymous reviewers whose qualifications are unknown. They warn that the stringent processes that ensured fairness and accountability are also gone. They say that Australian scientists are left with the stain of embarrassment of belonging to a system that lacks the credibility of rigorous scholarly review.
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