Comment from Hannah Yin
Hannah YinOpposeAcademic
Summary: A graduate worker at Yale University opposes the proposed rule, arguing that it would negatively impact biomedical research funding and scientific advancement. The commenter expresses concern that political appointees lack the necessary expertise to evaluate complex research and that the rule could lead to biased grant selection and corruption in the academic world.
The Office of Management and Budget ,I am a graduate worker at Yale University working on inheritance of cancer in the Department of Genetics with funding from NIH traning grant. I have the concern that the recently proposed rule [200.205] would impact negatively to my future funding for conducting biomedical research and the future of scientific research as a whole. A political appointee, who is likely having no knowledge of the current research should not have the power to award or deny a grant without understanding the signficance of any research proposed. The field of biomedical has been impacted by the first round of grant restriction in which jargons in scientific studies were mistaken as sensitive words due to the non-intellegent and oversimplified, superfacial word picking filter. It can be forseen that the personal bias of the appointee would dictate the grant selection process, and would give arise to severe curruption in in the academic world. Therefore, granting power to political appointees would potentially limit the advancement of important research.With the concerns described above, I strongly urge OMB to withdraw this proposed rule and re-consider changing the current peer-review process if fairness cannot be guarenteed. Hannah Yinhannah.yin@yale.eduNew Haven, Connecticut [ ]