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red_dazzler··on Bad science persists because poor methods are rewarded
Yea, because it is really all the overworked and underpaid graduate students faults... I have never met a single graduate student who rushed to publish shoddy work on his/her own. However, I have watched time and again while young impressionable graduate students are slowly but surely guided to publish shoddy work by overworked and desperate professors who feel they have no choice but to keep getting "academic currency" (e.g. publications).
red_dazzler··on 20n (YC W15) Uses Software To Engineer Microbes For Chemical-Making
There is already a lot of competition here (which is not necessarily a bad thing)...will be interested to see how 20n can differentiate and or add value upon what already exists.

http://www.nature.com/nrmicro/journal/v10/n3/fig_tab/nrmicro... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25080239 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1752-0509/5/122 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24642060

red_dazzler··on Should I Get a Ph.D.?
Friends don't let friends get PhDs