There seems to be a tension between “all ideas come from PIs who direct slaves to do experiments” and “students and postdocs came up with their ideas and did ev

There seems to be a tension between “all ideas come from PIs who direct slaves to do experiments” and “students and postdocs came up with their ideas and did everything, PI just paid salaries and equipment”. My experience is that all labs fall somewhere between these two extremes, and within labs people are spread along this axis. I felt a contradiction where the author states all ideas and execution comes from lab members, while quoting Boyden on the early days of expansion microscopy.