[emrah]

> It does make sense to not work on incremental things for merely publications so it is definitely good advice.

True but unfortunately this is how funding works based on what I saw during my time working at various labs.

You need to provide enough evidence that what you are after is going to "work". Most of the brand new ideas get resources by repurposing data from existing funded projects. If you don't have what you need, you finangle the funded project to produce the data the new idea needs.

I'm all for not syncing resources into crazy ideas that will never work but current state of affairs (it's getting worse) is too conservative