tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057869926275243678.post8254846081533255388..comments2024-03-07T17:15:19.426-08:00Comments on Lies, Damn Lies, and Startup PR: Follow the MoneyStartupPRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10863632782404121915noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057869926275243678.post-18244724931320046722016-10-19T12:16:14.119-07:002016-10-19T12:16:14.119-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Luka Amigohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12352413784482119725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057869926275243678.post-61610583908019964382016-09-07T19:05:20.252-07:002016-09-07T19:05:20.252-07:00Have to argue regarding corruption in academia. In...Have to argue regarding corruption in academia. In the biomedical space, a majority of studies cannot be replicated in a manner described originally in published literature. The stakes may not be billions, but they are a v comfortable life style. Todderchekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17085257543717183629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057869926275243678.post-87883483141605116362016-08-10T23:36:17.116-07:002016-08-10T23:36:17.116-07:00Overall I'd say the amount of corruption in ac...Overall I'd say the amount of corruption in academia is pretty low - and when it happens it's rarely out-and-out lying simply to make money. More it's a post-docs not properly supervised by Profs who doctor some results or plagiarise another paper to get things done quicker, small changes to papers and submitted to multiple journals at the same time, things that typically get spotted.<br /><br />Unlike business, in academia you can't make your billions on a single large scam and then retire on the proceeds, or have those that made billions with you continue to back you. A scam in academia gets found out, eventually, by another researcher, and basically never made money in the first place! The cost of fraud times the chance of discovery vastly outweighs profit to be made from academic fraud. Academics have to think of their career, and in the end reputation is all they have - they can't lose it and continue.<br /><br />I expect Theranos to try the 'soft corruption' route of funding labs and students, equipment etc, so that research groups are a little more apprehensive to say negative things. They might get a little nastier and make large donations to endowment funds that are yearly contributions, so as to have a university administration lean on a research group to play nice. That may work in a smaller scale venture, but something as large as Theranos, as obvious, and with as huge a publicity boost as you'd get from being the group that definitively proved Theranos a fraud, that method won't fly here.<br />StartupPRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10863632782404121915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057869926275243678.post-19405320185803928502016-08-08T22:54:42.101-07:002016-08-08T22:54:42.101-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14498658691389556809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057869926275243678.post-15667900365142166152016-08-08T04:16:37.599-07:002016-08-08T04:16:37.599-07:00This all makes sense now ... I couldn't figure...This all makes sense now ... I couldn't figure out what Patricia's angle was for the whole debacle and shredding her reputation ... kudos for putting two and two together! <br /><br />Curious, what is your opinion of the amount/level of corruption in academia?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05511858081134122397noreply@blogger.com