Björn BrembsWow, the one critical review (the other was over the top enthusiastic) of our latest grant proposal beats everything I have seen in 25 years of grant writing:
1. Already the summary of our proposal is not even close
2. Proposes experiments that are already in the grant
3. Criticizes experiments we don't propose
4. States that we lack expertise (which we have) for the experiments we did not propose
5. Knows the results of our research even before the experiments are funded
Eli Roberson (he/him)@brembs I've seen something like that before. Friend received terrible scores for their grant. Critiques were clearly mixed from another grant. Wrong disease. Wrong mouse. Wrong experiments.
Response from NIH: they clearly mixed up grants. But the score they gave you is the score you get. Too bad.
That somehow adds insult to injury, omfg!
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@brembs it's just infuriating that you can get the kind of critique you got and there's no recourse. Knocked down for things you didn't say. And told to do things you already were going to.
What can you do? Not a thing.
"Infuriating" is the adjective I was looking for!