Comment on After shunning scientist, University of Pennsylvania celebrates her Nobel Prize — School that once demoted Katalin Karikó and cut her pay has made millions of dollars from patenting her work

Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• zik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The thing is she randomly got lucky and proven right due to a pandemic no-one expected. There are a lot of scientists out there who were also right but never had that luck.

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  • Misconduct@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Randomly got lucky? What lol. Other scientists not being noticed doesn’t in any way invalidate her. How absurd

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    • NightAuthor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think they’re just trying to say, even if you’re right, you can still get screwed over. She just happened to get lucky in having a solid real world situation to help vindicate her.

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “Humans are pretty dumb” follows up by stating a badly structured and unsubstantiated subjective analysis of an economic system which was never used

      Whew, lads.

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• Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The problem is, and this happens a lot in science, often it takes so long for scientists to be vindicated they die poor and in disrepute. If the pandemic had never happened she may have gone the same way.

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• Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Being wrong is just as important in science, imo

  Right or wrong, it’s all data

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  • NightAuthor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    #NormalizePublishingNegativeResults

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• winterayars@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  She may not, but i wonder how many other incredible technologies are being held back for effectively political reasons.

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