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I understand your reasoning, but our efforts to prevent this is part of why professors spend so much time writing grants and filling out other paperwork these d
by biophysboy 1y ago
I understand your reasoning, but our efforts to prevent this is part of why professors spend so much time writing grants and filling out other paperwork these days. It’s better in my opinion to just accept reasonable risk.
I would add that weird ideas can be surprisingly useful; nobody expected research on gila monsters to lead to our most successful weight loss treatment to date.
- throwawaymaths 1y agothe fucking gila monster story is pure revisionist history. back in the late aughts after the human genome got sequenced and qpcr started picking up it was pretty obvious from islet alpha cell proteomics that glucagon would be an interesting drug target.
- biophysboy 1y agoResearchers were exploring GLP applications in the 90s