As someone with a scientific background, and the word scientist in my title I guess this comes as a “no duh” to me. Prior art is table stakes. There should be n

As someone with a scientific background, and the word scientist in my title I guess this comes as a “no duh” to me. Prior art is table stakes. There should be nothing more embarrassing to a researcher than learning that they’ve failed to read and consider other work on a topic that’s easily accessible.