Grant Rants: Building Better Research

Most of the research I review is flawed.

It’s not so hard to build a decent design.

So I made a 21 frame cartoon to help people.

While it’s written for NFAR*, the ideas are universal.

The link and a sample frame are below.

Hope you like it!

www.nfar.org/images/stories/uploads/2017/NFAR-Grant-Rants-Web.pdf

*National Foundation for Autism Research

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Joshua Feder, M.D. Dr. Feder's Blog

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