In the US, biomedical research has been suffering for roughly the last decade. There are a number of reasons, including stagnant or declining federal funding, lack of appropriate training for young researchers, excessive regulations that detract from productivity, and issues with intellectual property rights. To remedy these concerns, both individual researchers and entire organizations have invested time and resources into making recommendations to resolve one or more of the perceived issues.
So far, however, little progress has been made on any measures that could improve the research environment. To assist in identifying areas where immediate action should be taken, the authors of yet another set of recommendations conducted a meta-analysis of the existing proposals. They were able to identify eight that were endorsed by a majority of scientific community leaders.
While the report is useful for figuring out what the consensus solutions are, it brings us no closer to implementing any of them.
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