Lots of interesting things in this week's C&EN:
- Enjoyed reading/learning about immune cell therapy in Lisa Jarvis' cover article.
- Those interested in the inside-baseball of journal editing and consecutive appearances in the literature will enjoy this Carmen Drahl article.
- Gosh, this Marc Reisch article about Chinese chemical manufacturers driving out competition in the artificial sweeteners market is interesting; wonder where the stuff that goes into Diet Cokes comes from?
- "FROM MY ICY COLD DEAD HANDS" is what my grad school self would have said.
- I feel like this article on cryoprotectant compounds is a really big deal -- maybe I'm just remembering all the effort I used to put into keeping cells cold back in the day. (article by Bethany Halford.)
- Interesting idea from a former chemist to put more scientists into Congress through a PAC. (article by Jessica Morrison)
You missed this Boston Globe one,
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Of course, this is another nail in the coffin to the "we need more scientists" crowd. But still, I have NO SYMPATHY for anyone who spends time at an elitist university like Harvard (as featured in your article) in the expectation that they are ENTITLED to a professorship. As well, it is the same elitist universities which are monopolizing the majority of federal research funding, which further exacerbates the pyramid scheme into which a career in sciences has evolved. My new term for it is "pyramidocracy". Only now, they are starting to suffocate in their own excrement.
ReplyDeleteYou know what happens when you put a scientist into Congress? He becomes a politician.
ReplyDeleteThat's true of every profession. At the end of the day I think it would be useful to have more scientists and fewer lawyers in congress.
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