After 'coding error' triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work
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Re: After 'coding error' triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work
#2https://archive.is/RkCst
Color me dubious about "coding errors" when Musk and his lap DOGE-ies are involved.
Re: After 'coding error' triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work
#3hopefully they found a new job already
Re: After 'coding error' triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work
#4https://archive.is/RkCst Color me dubious about "coding errors" when Musk and his lap DOGE-ies are involved.
Even though I wouldn't be surprised at all about the fact that anything Musk and his cronies put out is chock full of coding errors, it does seem like it's just a pathetically weak excuse.
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#6In general it is a good practice to assume other parties are making a good faith effort, but after so many obvious cockups, that grace has been exhausted.
My assumption is that there is a lot of blow-back so they are restoring a few high profile names so they can say, "see, we aren't stopping science!". It is good this handful of people are back on the job, but I assume the NIH is like most other organizations -- the top name isn't doing the work themselves. They lead a team of people and their expertise is used to provide them direction and as a resource to help analyze surprising results. If the top experts lose their staff, I doubt they'll get nearly as much done. Having the 65 year old braintrust spending hours pipetting and staining samples is wildly inefficient. DOGI.
Re: After 'coding error' triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work
#7So we're firing people with PHP now?
Re: After 'coding error' triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work
#8In general it is a good practice to assume other parties are making a good faith effort, but after so many obvious cockups, that grace has been exhausted. My assumption is that there is a lot of blow-back so they are restoring a few high profile names so they can say, "see, we aren't stopping science!". It is good this handful of people are back on the job, but I assume the NIH is like most other organizations -- the…
Also, if you're nearing retirement and you look at this mess, you're not coming back, there won't be anything to be done.
Its a trap. They'll get these folks back, there will be nobody else to do the work and they'll come back and say "see, these people were useless, we were right in firing them".
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#9> “Even if they stopped now, a lot of damage has been done,” another NINDS investigator says. “I think it’s a sinking ship. I don’t mean my lab, I mean biomedical research.”
Re: After 'coding error' triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work
#10“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby