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Re:USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit by noobermin on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @05:37PM (#13476427)
>(in the wonderfully lucrative and liquid job market for research scientists of our current era)

Surely you jest. I think you mean in the private sector.

A scientist joins a national lab or institution not for the pay, but for academic and research reasons.

Re:USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit by kafkaesq on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @05:48PM (#13476507)
It was, indeed, in jest.

Irony and humor being one of the few defenses we have against the rapidly onsetting age of darkness.

Re:USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit by Filligree on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @05:38PM (#13476432)
I believe that was irony.