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by DaveWalk 12y ago
> Who tells dying patients they are not allowed them, and is there a black market or large amounts of money changing hands for experimental procedures? The FDA regulates every aspect of clinical trial design. Dying cancer patients are
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This is much easier for bacterial infections vs cancer -- chemotherapy is (excuse the non-medical phrase) very close to actual poison. Antibiotics are very well-tolerated, so taking two at once is something that could be done and is indeed
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This is correct. As a matter of fact, even dosing one chemotherapy may be a challenge for a patient if the side effects are too server (lowered immune resistance, can't keep food down, etc). We're talking about drugs with such sma
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by DaveWalk 13y ago
Overabundance is definitely an issue, and one can indeed argue that in the biomedical sciences wages are set or guided independent of institution, and therefore similar work could expected from trainees. However, in the humanities (and when
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I'm shocked by the sexism evidence in this article, and I respect the author for removing herself from such a place. I often wonder how this hostility compares to other institutions, and other labs in the same institution (forgive the
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A great point you brought up. I know someone whose mother, by all intents, was cleared to get accepted to a PhD program in the sciences...but unfortunately, they didn't allow women into the program at the time. It was "simply not
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Graduate student unionization has had a troubled past (in the US, the article's author doesn't reference her institution). From my research and what I know at institutions I have worked in, organization has been stymied mostly by
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Very good points. Especially if you are a tech-based startup, the "glorified co-working space" is a model to be wary of. I concede that perhaps YC is less an incubator and more of a bootcamp, as mentioned upthread. I'd like t
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I think there is something about the HN layout that makes it feel more "homegrown", which has no ads or images at all. Kind of reminds me of an old-timey newspaper, or the WSJ "What's News." Not saying it can't
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Pricing aside, I disagree: YC is in part a startup incubator, no? Those driven to work in an incubator space are precisely the kinds of people who can benefit from a "Hacker News for..." site. That said, there are many biotech inc
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I think your points are good ones, and that today's landscape basically requires access to a lab if a biotech product isn't software or a medical device. So for "homebrewers", as you say, it can be challenging to get sta
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> Someone, somewhere still uses these browsers for various reasons I am interested to know (pure curiosity) what those reasons are for those folks. I can only think of a few using my imagination (locked down OS in a hospital, crusty old
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I wanted to give you kudos for stating the level-headed answer that isn't brought up often in these doom and gloom articles: >...funding is not so bleak that it's hopeless. [It] does however require me to pick and choose only t
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This weekend, my partner had her backpacked gate-checked, but it didn't go to the separate part of the plane. It became checked luggage, which then failed to come off the plane and landed in another airport. Fun times having a carryon
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> it's safer to transport the materials without the added attention from armored escorts A colleague of mine who once worked at a nuclear power plant said this is precisely the reason. Also, as mentioned below, this material, while
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I like your comparison -- nobody hats yet drawn the parallels between the topic and the startup culture, which makes a lot of sense. It reminds me of a quote I once heard attributed to Bruce Sterling: "Start ups are full of people work
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I see a parallel that I don't believe was mentioned in the article: that the "young men" can be compared to "undergraduate degree holders." It's a crude comparison, and I feel guilty making it, but if you have
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by DaveWalk 13y ago
Dekhn is calling you out on your qualitative statements: where you live, in your field, in your own mind and to the people you know ("I know a lot of people who have done PhDs") these facts may indeed be true. But I would argu
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by DaveWalk 13y ago
This is a trend that stretches well back 50 years, some say to the establishment of the postwar DoD funding system. I recommend Paula Stephan's How Economics Shapes Science [1] for a comprehensive view of both the underpaid and increa
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I enjoyed this piece -- especially comparing the author's experience in asking a private investigator to check him out in 1999 versus a pen tester to do the same in 2013. All the attack vectors seem fairly straightforward, but I suppos
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A great point -- in "How Economics Shapes Science," science economist Paula Stephan talks about this problem repeatedly. One of the unforeseen problems in the peer review space is that older professors retire later and later in li
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As a scientist, two things come to mind: 1) Tenure is a different beast at some medical institutions where your funding comes almost entirely from your own grant support. There are tenured professors and it's fair to argue that tenure
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I'd be interested to know which studies they are targeting. Is SciEx testing a key figure from an expansive publication, or the entire methodology from discoveries with few tests? To me, this seems to be a conceptually difficult deci
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In the biomedical sciences (where the original author is speaking from), there is a dichotomy: yes, most researchers don't believe that a single publication is the final word on a topic and that in theory anything could be retracted or
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It's not just you, but I believe it's a subset of people. Though I'm not an educational researcher, I believe it has to do with your comprehension style -- people tend to gravitate to one style they like best. The common one
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Spot on analogy with Google+. Wasn't it true for Wave as well? The top comment is comparing the service to a friendlier Stack Exchange / IRC...yours is a good counter argument.