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Where both students and teachers are somehow exploited by business majors.
Business majors are ruining the world one quarter at a time.
They'll poison you over pennies.
But profits are up 5%!
This hits hard even as an engineer working in product development.
Non pay walled version: https://archive.ph/hWXMz
They both saved all of our asses. And our families' asses. We owe the two scientists a great deal.
Let's not forget the medical world ignored and sidelined her research for years until suddenly it became necessary. If it weren't for COVID they'd still be pretending this technology doesn't exist. I bet they still don't even want it (case in point: it was developed with the intent of treating HIV and there's still no HIV treatment in sight) but the CEOs and shit have had to accept it.
Good that she had the determination to continue. The great thing is that she was vindicated because it turned out she was right. In science being right is what ultimately matters.
I'm guessing she will never have similar problems in the future.
The thing is she randomly got lucky and proven right due to a pandemic that no-one expected. There are a huge number of other scientists out there who were also right but never had that luck.
Randomly got lucky? What lol. Other scientists not being noticed doesn't in any way invalidate her. How absurd
I think they’re just trying to say, even if you’re right, you can still get screwed over. She just happened to get lucky in having a solid real world situation to help vindicate her.
The problem is, and this happens a lot in science, often it takes so long for scientists to be vindicated they die poor and in disrepute. If the pandemic had never happened she may have gone the same way.
Being wrong is just as important in science, imo
Right or wrong, it's all data
#NormalizePublishingNegativeResults
She may not, but i wonder how many other incredible technologies are being held back for effectively political reasons.
IANAL, but seems like this lady should sue them.
If she did the work there they likely own it.
she left after they gave her an ultimatum of having to take a pay cut if she wanted to continue. i am not sure if she is a founder but she worked at BioNTech , so it's not owned by the university. I don't think it's illegal but this is the time she should be publicizing the story to shame them and divert talent to competing universities.
Don't get me wrong U of P is a good school but it is also where trump got his "degree" which I am sure he did 100% of the work to obtain it.
mRNA vaccines are an interesting technology. I consider them to be nanotechnology.
It’s all just physics