padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
during my brush with the scientific world, I was put off by the degree to which it functions in the same wayit was ever thus
there it is, I guess, more defensible
technicians can do some things but depending on the research, you simply have to have some number of grad students/post-docs in a lab
but whenever someone gets a Nobel or whatever, it represents the work of many people
like any field, some people have better or worse reputations for crediting their underlings. I heard a few horror stories.
and because the publish or perish pressure is so acute, the head of a lab is like a feudal lord, holding everyone's fate in their hands