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Re:Philly scientist behind COVID vaccine tech was demoted by... by Bukhmanizer on Sunday January 03, 2021 @06:24PM (#25626275)
This is a story about how the academic system failed twice to retain talent due to short-sighted metric gaming. It's a story where if Karikó believed that life would be easier if she just started churning out meaningless papers, we likely would not have an mRNA vaccine.

edit: Also very curious about the "attempt to have her deported" as I've heard of many threats of that nature against foreign post-docs.

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Re:Philly scientist behind COVID vaccine tech was demoted by... by rramadass on Sunday January 03, 2021 @10:46PM (#25627756)
>how the academic system failed twice to retain talent due to short-sighted metric gaming

Very right! I fear that the cancer of "shortsighted quick returns" in the Research field has been the death of many a talented researcher. Research/Education should really be treated very differently from Industry/Productization and the same yardstick should not be applied to both.

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