科研拨款制度，其实是一种公共信任机制
Peer review is easy to caricature as academic bureaucracy: anonymous reports, procedural delays, technical quarrels and committees whose deliberations rarely become visible to the taxpayers who finance research. Yet that unglamorous machinery is precisely what gives public science a measure of legitimacy.
A credible grant system attempts to insulate uncertain inquiry from patronage, ideological convenience and administrative impatience. It does not eliminate bias, conservatism or disciplinary politics, but it creates a contestable procedure in which specialized evidence matters more than personal loyalty.
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