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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

Not quite accurate, Drew.  I did grant writing and each grant has its own
specific requirements.  Some were only 7 years, some were longer.  None were
infinite.  If they are keeping data till hell freezes over, that is their
choice, not a requirement unless a specific grant so states, and most don't.

AND, since the grants I wrote were for schools, I would question keeping all
the supporting documentation.  Results are a different story.  Plus, once
you have your audit, you can trash away to your heart's content in most
instances.

And, there seems to be a disconnect between what reality is with research
and what people perceive it to be.  The data they trashed was simply
information they had collected.  The vast bulk of that data they got from
other sources.  Those sources should still have their data.

Lynda
--"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we
are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and
servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."  Theordore
Roosevelt, 1918.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <dsanner106 AT aol.com>

> The problem is they cannot be duplicated, they are gone and were not
> duplicated. We have only the work product they generated after massaging
> the
> original data. My wife is a university grant writer, I think they would be
> so
> happy to hear that they can throw away all the data gathered from those
> funded  studies that they have always been required to keep. There is a
> warehouse full  of the stuff, still kept even though it has been
> transferred to
> microfilm and  later digital formats.
> Drew
> ,
>
> In a message dated 12/15/2009 12:27:45 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> lurine AT com-pair.net writes:
>
> I don't  think the average person, which the DC Whorehouse, etc. counts
> on,
>
> understands what happens to all that paper.
>
> They collect data, they  correlate data, they digest data, they spit out
> data
> in the form of papers  for peer review and scientific journals.  The data
> sits around and  then the data is trashed.  That specific project is over.
> They have  the results.  It is done.
>
> No big conspiracy.  Just basic,  ordinary everyday housekeeping.  The idea
> that someone might have  thought 30 years ago that not keeping a
> collection
> of references, that can  be duplicated if needed, would cause such a stink
> is
> ludicrous.
>
> Lynda
>
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