They are under a deadline to come up with something-anything useful within a few years
For better or worse, being useful isn’t something that’s important for academic biology research. If you discover a new biochemical pathway, you get published whether or not the knowledge helps anybody to do something useful.
No one is going to magically publish a working paper in Nature tomorrow where they have succeeded in such an effort overnight. Yet, this is basically what the current system expects.
That’s I don’t see why someone who would develop something that would work as one of the components of the tool wouldn’t get published in Nature.
Our society spends billions to kill a few Muslims who MIGHT kill some people violently.
That’s a very naive way to look at things. Killing a few Muslims who MIGHT kill some people violently isn’t the only goal of the various wars. As long as you pretend it is things are hard to understand.
For better or worse, being useful isn’t something that’s important for academic biology research. If you discover a new biochemical pathway, you get published whether or not the knowledge helps anybody to do something useful.
That’s I don’t see why someone who would develop something that would work as one of the components of the tool wouldn’t get published in Nature.
That’s a very naive way to look at things. Killing a few Muslims who MIGHT kill some people violently isn’t the only goal of the various wars. As long as you pretend it is things are hard to understand.