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Scientists catch on to micro-philanthropy online, seeking funding from actual public

Just like Kickstarter has done for, well everything, SciFlies.org hopes to provide the same community-reviewed and financed model to research funding.  By completely bypassing government peer-review and replacing it with crowd-sourced funding and localized peer-review, innovative, risky and small-scale pilot studies could now have more chance at receiving money.

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