The Life Sciences Recent Progress and Application to Human Affairs The World of Biological Research Requirements for the Future (1970) / Chapter Skim
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INDIVIDUAL SCIENTISTS Academic Scientists Half the scientists considered that the space available to them was seriously limiting. A fifth to a quarter were hampered for lack of access to one or another specialized research facility.
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Twenty to thirty percent were limited by available consumable supplies; about a third required specialized equipment, a requirement stated most frequently by biochemists and least frequently by systematic biologists. Almost every individual in the study would expand his research group somewhat if he could: one fourth indicated a desire for additional professional staff, a desire least often asserted by the developmental biologists and most often by those studying disease mechanisms; half felt an urgent need for additional technicians, the most numerous being the nutritionists.
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The events of Fiscal Year 1970 and 1971 may very well alter that situation dramatically, and for the worse. These statements, descriptive of circumstances during the summer of 1967, should be read in the light of the subsequent serious deterioration in the federal funding of all research, particularly that in the life sciences.
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In view of the multiple and diverse opportunities for employment and the remarkable diversity of sources of research funds, the relatively high degree of direction seemingly given to the research endeavor in all sectors by funding agencies, which overrides the personal research preferences of so many investigators, particularly those in academic life, came as a surprise. The constraints imposed by insufficiency of space, funds, and other requirements can be alleviated by an expansion of the total funding of the research enterprise.
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But it is a responsibility of government to assure that, at all times, the most pressing problems of societye.g., food supply, population control, quality of the environment, alleviation of disease, national security, habitability of the cities are receiving vigorous attention from the research-performing community while also assuring a fundamental research effort sufficient to long-term goals. The primary leverage available to the government to assure a satisfactory bal ance of this effort is a combination of mission-oriented laboratories and the pattern of funding of academic research.
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There was little demand for tropical biology stations other than those already available, except for 23 systematic biologists who required access to a tropical terrestrial station; only 41 scientists, of all categories, expressed need for a tropical marine station, unavailable to them at present, as a first-priority request. Climatecontrolled rooms were in demand by scientists from all research areas; unexpectedly, this was most frequent among the geneticists.
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