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To: Brumar89 who wrote (74652)	2/4/2017 1:45:34 PM
From: russet	1 Recommendation Recommended By Brumar89 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

I was involved in the university scholarship and grant game and can verify what you say is true. The first step in applying for a scholarship, operating grant, equipment grant or contract to supply services is to find out who is on the granting board and what their main research pursuits are. We read published papers, books etc., to familiarize ourselves with their hot buttons. Then we file our submissions peppering them with suggestive links to the grantors' research pursuits. We always were successful, when many of our colleagues were not. It was never what you know, but always who you know. One set of experiments we conducted showed that several big researchers in the field were wrong about their conclusions. The principle sponsoring researchers in the experiments were scared to publish the results. They forced us to repeat the experiments and use multiple means to prove the results were correct. This took us the better part of a year. Finally they presented the results to the big researchers prior to publishing. They invited the big researchers to put their names on the papers and write much of the conclusions so both groups could save their reputations. This does not take place in all fields of study. The worst fields are always the ones that government and the media are meddling in.