VTU Profs Accuse Uncle Sam of Wasting Billions on Duplicative Grants

They claim to have identified 167 pairs of grants that are essentially identical.

http://chronicle.com/article/US-Said-to-Have-Wasted/136921/?cid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en

Here is their report in "Nature."

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v493/n7434/full/493599a.html

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