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US funders must do more to ensure research reliability

Government report calls for greater rigour and transparency in federally funded science.
  1. Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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The three largest basic-research funders in the United States are under the spotlight as the federal government aims to make the science they fund more reproducible. Two of the agencies — the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) — are firming up plans to foster more rigour and transparency in their processes; NASA, meanwhile, has drawn criticism for being less proactive.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00361-1

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