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> Complaints about being denied NIH funding are as common among biomedical researchers as spilled test tubes after a Saturday night lab kegger

Is this supposed to mean complaints are common?

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Yes. It's not particularly surprising, though, since research grants is basically a field with much higher demand than supply.

Yup. And the NIH even has pretty reports to hit you over the head with just how depressing the situation actually is for researchers (especially if you're young).

https://report.nih.gov/NIHDatabook/Charts/Default.aspx?chart...

https://report.nih.gov/DisplayRePORT.aspx?rid=827

The article is littered with references to beer. As though the target demographic alcoholics who enjoy PopSci.

Scientific / conference culture has a somewhat concerning relationship with alcohol, which was a contributing factor to my ultimately leaving science. The amount of pressure to go out to a pub with your colleagues was much higher for me than it was in my current job, in large part because serious discussions and informal deals that could directly impact your academic career tend to happen in these sorts of contexts. I suspected that a lot of my co-workers in science were high functioning alcoholics.

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