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there are so many major problems with 'fund people not projects'. Science is already a little bit broken. Scientists aren't supposed to dragnet data until they get the results they want, but it still does happen. however, if we were funding people and not projects, this would happen almost every time.

I also think politics in science would become even more of a problem. all of our money towards science would go toward funding research that backs their worldview.

I also think we'd see even more social media like driven science. "I am going to research this because I can write on social media/youtube on this and get lots of click/likes-> money"