In the recent paper above scientists from The Netherlands, Sweden, France, Australia, UK, Switzerland, and USA elaborated on the question, of how should science funding be allocated. Unfortunately, the paper assumes that "financial limitations" are something that scientists can do nothing about almost as if they were sacred.
Of course, the coward scientists that follow the advice of the Editor Sedlak they sure can´t but others can do a lot as they already did even risking their careers https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-pursuit-of-success-in-academia.html Scientists can start to claim the right share of research on the world´s GDP, 1% right now, 3% by 2030 and 5% by 2050. All the politicians have to do is cut military expenses or have the courage to tackle the trillion tax evasion by the super-rich https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/19/tax-avoidance-by-the-rich-could-top-5-trillion-in-next-decade.html
As Jean-Pierre Bourguignon the former President of the European Research Council (previously he was also Director of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques and President of the European Mathematical Society) advised, the scientific community needs to strengthen its “fighting spirit" and organize in order to address this battle https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/2019/12/there-are-times-when-scientists-must.html
