What I’m describing is most labs for first-time PIs and there will not be a path to recovery for most of them. It’s not like tech where you can just come up with the next shitty idea and try again. PIs don’t get to fail 3 times like you. So stop being a fragile little snowflake tech douche when you don’t know what you’re talking about. Grow some empathy for others; history will never forget your kind even long after it forgets you.
My industry? My industry is tech, where I got paid 7 figures for years and years doing fuck all to benefit society. It’s pretty telling that you just assumed someone defending a marginalized group was a member of that cohort.
Are there improvements that could be made in the grant process? Sure, just like there are improvements that could be made in any process. That is not a justification for taking a sledgehammer to the existing institution and affecting thousands of our brightest and hardest working residents who generally are not in it for godforsaken money but to better society. The ends in your kindergarten example do not justify the means. This is political, it’s not a merit-based cleansing.
I’m sure someone such as yourself would never see medical research as a public good so I guess we’re done here. The ideological bridge is too vast and frankly I have lost complete interest in the drivel on the other side.
