As someone who has been involved in and seen how cancer research is done, it is no surprise that progress is slow. The "skilled", "famous" and "influential" sc

As someone who has been involved in and seen how cancer research is done, it is no surprise that progress is slow. The "skilled", "famous" and "influential" scientists in cancer research spend almost all their time fighting for grants, undermining each other, jockeying for influence, exaggerating their own importance, publishing phony papers etc. Underpaid novices, trainees, grad students, and postdocs with little prior experience do the actual work in the lab. It is much, much worse than a reasonable person would imagine!