...to the question of where do we get funding if not from institutions and grants, which provide such research money based on merit defined as publications, presentations, etc, is crowd-funding the fees.
A really neat article and video about Ethan Perlstein's approach to the open science and open source model and his research on evolutionary pharmacology. This is a fantastic idea and could be used as a model for other researchers out there. This at the very least could be used as a means for researchers to engage open science and sharing data and cultivating a public collective conscience about scientific research and its funding.
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