TL;DR: If I was going to try to seriously accelerate mental health research, I’d try to fix the Science, incentives, and data accumulation (having raw data about experiments, so that others can analyze it too). Then I’d give prestige and money to whoever actually makes progress.
This is of course too short to describe the approach in full, but my main point is that I’d try to fix incentives for people to have good ideas rather than having one good idea myself.
I know this isn’t the submission you asked for, but maybe relevant people will read this comment
TL;DR: If I was going to try to seriously accelerate mental health research, I’d try to fix the Science, incentives, and data accumulation (having raw data about experiments, so that others can analyze it too). Then I’d give prestige and money to whoever actually makes progress.
As inspiration, “chapters” from ProjectLawful.com: To Hell With Science, To Earth With Science (if you read one, read this. especially the end)
This is of course too short to describe the approach in full, but my main point is that I’d try to fix incentives for people to have good ideas rather than having one good idea myself.
I know this isn’t the submission you asked for, but maybe relevant people will read this comment