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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.309 [SLACK_000523] · slack_pm:msg:03246

Date: 2020-12-14 08:52
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry

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"Academia's perverse incentives pushed overconfident poseurs towards sloppy work, which then got international attention. Many people swerved out of their scholarly lanes and plowed into unfamiliar territory, making life harder for actual experts. 6/" Yes Alina, Relman etc he is talking about you...

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2020-12-14 08:52 Robert F. Garry open

Another important article from Ed Yong
2020-12-14 08:52 Robert F. Garry

"Academia's perverse incentives pushed overconfident poseurs towards sloppy work, which then got international attention. Many people swerved out of their scholarly lanes and plowed into unfamiliar territory, making life harder for actual experts. 6/" Yes Alina, Relman etc he is talking about you...
2020-12-14 08:56 Kristian G. Andersen open

I had a good half hour rant about this when I talked to him :wink:. Haven't had time to read the article yet - but I'm sure it's great...
2020-12-14 09:01 Robert F. Garry open

And don't be mistaken Alina is indeed talking about us here, but mostly you Kristian :sunglasses: [shared file(s): image.png]
2020-12-14 09:03 Kristian G. Andersen open

She _does_ talk a lot about me... :thinking_face:. I totally agree with her on this tweet though - a lot of high profile folks doing a lot of shit 'science'.
2020-12-14 09:17 Robert F. Garry open

Don't get me started - just out of the COVID review study section - let's just say that I regret not putting in acompetitive application...

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