White House's 'New Golden Age' for science sparks debate over funding and coherence

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Ars Technica analyzes the White House OSTP report Science: A New Golden Age, which argues for streamlined grants, looser peer review, and closer ties between science and industry to accelerate science and AI innovation, but critics say the proposal is incoherent, ignores prior funding cuts, overstates its premises, and offers few clear mechanisms to move basic research into commercial advances.
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