http://bionews-tx.com/news/2013/08/01/nih-acknowledges-irreproducibility-in-experiment-results-seeks-new-validation-standards/

NIH Acknowledges Irreproducibility In Experiment Results, Seeks New Validation Standards

"Lawrence Tabak, the agency’s principal deputy director was frank in his new proposal for a more rigorous set of criteria in order for researchers to procure valuable NIH funding: “If the premise isn’t validatable, then we’re done; it doesn’t matter how well you wrote the grant.” Given the increased scrutiny that American taxpayers are levying against tax-funded governmental bodies. In many ways, this new, hardline approach that Tabek is suggesting is not dissimilar from the new peer review and organization structure put into place atCPRIT in response to the scandal that begun in December of 2012. Just as with CPRIT, where a lack of peer review and nonspecific criteria led to a shoddy and wasteful grant process, the NIH risks a similar potential loss of confidence if an increasing number of funded research projects reveal a lack of empirical evidence to support government-based funding."