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Disclaimer Statement: George has family who work at the University of Otago Wellington. I like it when the Health Research Council (HRC) funding round is announced. Partly to see if anyone I know got funding (see Disclaimer Statement above) but mainly for selfish reasons. I love the way the two universities with medical schools rapidly…

Disclosure Statement: George promised you he wouldn't bother you with the 2014 R&D Stats again but then, sorry, they revised them. And now he can't help himself.We'll keep it brief. So, when I rhetorically asked who cares about the R&D Stats when they first came out I didn't expect an answer. Even then it was…

Disclosure statement: George worked with Statistics New Zealand on the former Bioscience Survey and, even if he was one of only three people who read it, as StatsNZ pointed out in binning it, he misses it. He is still prone to a getting a little of the glint of the ancient Mariner in his eye…