> It's clearly rational for the scientists to spend time on the pursuit of grants. Otherwise they wouldn't be doing it. This is one of the reasons why I left a

> It's clearly rational for the scientists to spend time on the pursuit of grants. Otherwise they wouldn't be doing it. This is one of the reasons why I left academia. The insane run for grants was just starting and i said that I do not have any intent do do that. I was a scientist. Doing science. Not filling in papers and going to belly dancing shows. When I was told that this is compulsory and nobody else is going to do it, I sad good bye and left for the industry. I was earning 10x more, had no worries about funding or copier paper. Plenty of my friends did it and then academia was crying because of the brains drain and how unfair it was. The salme who said that grats are compulsory (they were sitting in the various jurys to accept them, instead of doing science)