People don't even understand how critical this problem is. I was previously working at a very good European medical lab. The environment was so weird most postd

People don't even understand how critical this problem is. I was previously working at a very good European medical lab. The environment was so weird most postdocs simply spent 95% of their time playing the ladder-climbing game. Some got incredible promotions, like getting all the way from postdoc -> assistant prof. -> asociate prof. in 3 years after ending their PhD with no decent publications at all. It's not even publishing crap. It's that these places develop into odd little societies that end up resembling Orwell's Animal Farm. Obviously, this very good lab is collapsing. I have moved to Oxbridge now and things are much better. Sad to see so many cancer research Euros wasted.