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[-] Spacebar@lemmy.world 96 points 1 year ago

So under his leadership it became more about positive results than it was about accurate results.

That's not science, that's marketing.

[-] DoctorNope@lemmy.one 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Give the guy a break! At least his students aren’t poisoning each other or anything…

[-] hamster@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago

You should feel bad for him. He's lost everything. All he has left is the millions he's made.

[-] Hank@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

You can't blame him for that one.
Btw I dated a biochemist and they're all insane.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 6 points 1 year ago

Is it from all the biochemicals? I think it is from all the biochemicals.

[-] Tavarin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Don't forget the regular chemicals. Though I'm a bioanalytical chemist, so I likely use more of those than a typical biochemist.

[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Studied biochemistry as a major, currently am a microbiology grad student. Biochemistry attracts a certain type of person. Imagine smashing your head against a brick wall. That's how it feels like to do biochemistry.

People who do biochemistry are brilliant but wow, they're intense. At least they're not evolutionary ecologists.

[-] Ducks@ducks.dev 4 points 1 year ago
[-] DoctorNope@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Never have I ever strangled my roommate, poisoned my advisor for suggesting I go into a different branch of physics, and created a weapon that deletes entire metropolitan areas.

Two out of three of those, **at most.

[-] fiat_lux@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately that's how modern science works. The scientists with the best marketing skills get the grants, get their work mentioned in the media, and hence, get more prestigious work.

He is both a result of a broken system, and then became one of its key perpetuators. I bet he made some sweet bags of cash doing it.

[-] danhasnolife@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Yep. And it worked all the way up to the Stanford presidency. Even now he is "only" a tenured professor.

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