sci.research.careers

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Marco wrote:

> On Sep 29, 8:32 am, Russell < ...@ > wrote:
>> On Sep 29, 1:25 am, Straydog wrote:
>>
>>> I'd love to see them do one for a medical school environment. Sorta on the
>>> style of NYPD-blue. Faculty droping through trap doors in the floor (going
>>> down the chute into the dumpster outside) as the grant review committee
>>> gives thumbs down. Whole departments getting shot out of the sky as
>>> competitor departments talk deans into re-allocating resources to the
>>> winning department. "Prince-of-Darkness" administrators. Directors playing
>>> "doll house" games only people are treated like dolls. Tenure buyouts to
>>> get rid of people. Moving labs around every 6 months to get rid of people.
>>> chaning locks on doors without notice. The whole nine yards.
>>
>> Instead of "Boston Legal" do "Harvard Medical"? Better catch a
>> plane to Hollywood and pitch that concept.
>
> I always thought they should do a Survivor-type show set in an
> academic lab. Forget the island thing, that's for amateurs...instead,
> WHO will be first author?! WHO will get their grant renewed?! WHICH
> postdoc will get a real job after only one postdoc?! WHO will get
> tenure?! Major drama...pass the popcorn.

Don't forget the "fudging the books", "fudging the lab notes", "concealing
conflicts of interest," "spying on competitors", stock options
backdating, and all the other stuff that actually happens.

For the record, you can go into back issues of the journal _Science_ 2-3
decades ago, and--yes--the FDA caught a number of pharma companies
actually faking their test data!!! I kid you not.

Pharma political pressure, now, has the FDA basically in an "arm-lock" to
"approve" anything submitted and people become real live guinea pigs for
the final clinical trials, then if too many people start dying, then they
take the drug off the market.

There are books written about this, too.

> Marco
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