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"Renegade Researcher" is not something I thought could be a thing!

by keyle 3y ago

wiz21c 3y ago
subject for a scifi/cyberpunk/thriller !
eesmith 3y ago
There's quite a club: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=%22Renegade+Researcher%22&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=%22Renegade+Researcher%22&i... Varmus Reprimanded Over 'Renegade Researcher' - "a former NIH geneticist accused of conducting forbidden embryo-related research on the NIH campus in 1994 and 1995." - https://www.science.org/content/article/varmus-reprimanded-over-renegade-researcher https://www.science.org/content/article/varmus-reprimanded-o... Biotechnology: The Renegade Researcher - who injected "genetically altered bacteria into 14 trees in the hope of protecting them from Dutch elm disease" without EPA permission - https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,965261,00.html https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,965... Renegade Researcher Says Alzheimer's Drugs From Bristol-Myers, Pfizer May Be Unsafe Or Ineffective - https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlangreth/2010/08/23/renegade-researcher-says-alzheimers-drugs-from-bristol-myers-pfizer-may-be-unsafe-or-ineffective/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlangreth/2010/08/23/reneg... "Elliott Kotze is a community and counselling psychologist and renegade researcher in Cape Town, South Africa." - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09593535211061632?journalCode=fapa https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095935352110616... It also finds people I would describe as being in the alt-medicine and pseudoscience fields.
- robinduckett 3y ago
  I think I’m less concerned about the tree guy than the embryo guy!
m463 3y ago
I believe the saying about academia is: "Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small." think about this one though... wonder what the real story is? I remember reading about the story of the transistor and the hijinks by shockley: "Bardeen and Brattain demonstrated the transistor device to Bell Lab officials Dec. 23, 1947. Shockley was reported to have called it "a magnificent Christmas present." But Shockley himself was not present when it happened and was said to be bitter over losing out on that day. He had his revenge, though. Shockley continued to work on the idea and refine it. In early 1948, he came up with the bipolar or junction transistor, a superior device that took over from the point-contact type." https://www.wired.com/2009/12/1223shockley-bardeen-brattain-transistor/ https://www.wired.com/2009/12/1223shockley-bardeen-brattain-... (there are probably better stories covering the maneuvers)
- throwaway2037 3y ago
  Nice reference. It's called "Sayre's law". Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law

"Renegade Researcher" is not something I thought could be a thing!

by keyle 3y ago

"Renegade Researcher" is not something I thought could be a thing!

wiz21c 3y ago

subject for a scifi/cyberpunk/thriller !

eesmith 3y ago

There's quite a club: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=%22Renegade+Researcher%22&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=%22Renegade+Researcher%22&i... Varmus Reprimanded Over 'Renegade Researcher' - "a former NIH geneticist accused of conducting forbidden embryo-related research on the NIH campus in 1994 and 1995." - https://www.science.org/content/article/varmus-reprimanded-over-renegade-researcher https://www.science.org/content/article/varmus-reprimanded-o... Biotechnology: The Renegade Researcher - who injected "genetically altered bacteria into 14 trees in the hope of protecting them from Dutch elm disease" without EPA permission - https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,965261,00.html https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,965... Renegade Researcher Says Alzheimer's Drugs From Bristol-Myers, Pfizer May Be Unsafe Or Ineffective - https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlangreth/2010/08/23/renegade-researcher-says-alzheimers-drugs-from-bristol-myers-pfizer-may-be-unsafe-or-ineffective/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlangreth/2010/08/23/reneg... "Elliott Kotze is a community and counselling psychologist and renegade researcher in Cape Town, South Africa." - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09593535211061632?journalCode=fapa https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095935352110616... It also finds people I would describe as being in the alt-medicine and pseudoscience fields.

robinduckett 3y ago
I think I’m less concerned about the tree guy than the embryo guy!

m463 3y ago

I believe the saying about academia is: "Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small." think about this one though... wonder what the real story is? I remember reading about the story of the transistor and the hijinks by shockley: "Bardeen and Brattain demonstrated the transistor device to Bell Lab officials Dec. 23, 1947. Shockley was reported to have called it "a magnificent Christmas present." But Shockley himself was not present when it happened and was said to be bitter over losing out on that day. He had his revenge, though. Shockley continued to work on the idea and refine it. In early 1948, he came up with the bipolar or junction transistor, a superior device that took over from the point-contact type." https://www.wired.com/2009/12/1223shockley-bardeen-brattain-transistor/ https://www.wired.com/2009/12/1223shockley-bardeen-brattain-... (there are probably better stories covering the maneuvers)

throwaway2037 3y ago
Nice reference. It's called "Sayre's law". Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law