[genericone]

They wanted you to ask for more time and money? What kind of grift were they actually running?

[marcosdumay]

People evaluate the proposals expecting them to be estimations. And when somebody estimate some work taking too little time or money, people often don't trust that estimate.

This is all completely normal and reasonable. Except for the part where you are expected to estimate results of scientific research.

[mcmoor]

Yeah too good to be true things are red flag for fraud or pipe dream