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Universities have their own problem such as no one attempting to replicate each others work [1] and keep on publishing or they won’t get promoted. We should fu
by zitterbewegung 2y ago
Universities have their own problem such as no one attempting to replicate each others work [1] and keep on publishing or they won’t get promoted. We should fund replication trials in universities . Also , cancer is not some kind of monolithic problem nearly every cell has some mechanism to mutate so it becomes cancer. For example new cancer techniques come from mRNA research [2] . The problem of solving cancer isn’t some monolithic problem that throwing any amount of people will solve and even if they tried they would probably get burned out which is why they work for Wall Street or Adtech in the first place. One of the people that developed the research in mRNA got her career torpedoed to work for John Hopkins University [3]
[1] https://www.science.org/content/article/more-half-high-impact-cancer-lab-studies-could-not-be-replicated-controversial-analysis#:~:text=Results%20from%20only%20five%20papers,the%20pipeline%20into%20the%20clinic https://www.science.org/content/article/more-half-high-impac....
[2] https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2024/glioblastoma-mrna-vaccine-layered-nanoparticle#:~:text=mRNA%2Dbased%20cancer%20vaccines%20are,against%20many%20types%20of%20cancer.&text=Although%20immunotherapy%20is%20now%20a,the%20most%20common%20type%2C%20glioblastoma https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2024....
[3] In 1988, Karikó accepted a job at Johns Hopkins University without first informing her lab advisor Suhadolnik of her intention to leave Temple, as recounted in Gregory Zuckerman's 2021 book A Shot to Save the World. Suhadolnik told her that if she went to Johns Hopkins, he would have her deported, and subsequently reported her to U.S. immigration authorities, claiming that she was "illegally" in the United States. In the time it took her to successfully challenge the resulting extradition order, Johns Hopkins withdrew the job offer. Suhadolnik "continued bad-mouthing Karikó, making it impossible for her to get a new position" at other institutions, until she met a researcher at Bethesda Naval Hospital who "had his own difficult history with Suhadolnik".