Tuesday, February 2, 2016

This week's C&EN

A few articles from this week's C&EN:

16 comments:

  1. Re: return on pharma spending - shouldn't we expect a lag between approvals and return, especially on an annual basis? The drugs approved in 2015 were only on the market for a portion of 2015 (or in some cases, not on the market at all in 2015). And anyway, R&D spending is pre-commercial by definition. Returns today are a reflection of the research done 5-10 years ago, not this year.

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  2. Off topic but of interest to CJ:

    http://blogs.harvard.edu/philg/2016/02/02/what-kind-of-university-would-you-start-if-phds-were-common-as-dirt/

    No shortage of suckers....I mean talent!

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  3. Will Madeleine talk about salary diversity issues?

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    1. Every time I see her picture all I really want is for her to shut her pie-hole.

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    2. Evidently it's now acceptable to define scientific achievement by phenotype and genotype.

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    3. Yes, it is defined as white male.

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    4. "Will Madeleine talk about salary diversity issues?"

      Is there a gap in wages for males and females in chemistry? I'd assume not, but dk and unsure how easy to measure.

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    5. Dude or lady,
      "Is there a gap in wages for males and females in chemistry? I'd assume not, but dk and unsure how easy to measure."

      We are talking about salary diversity issues between $ 800K p.a. Madeline and the chemists who are, e.g. forced to teach as adjuncts. Their gender is complete irrelevant. Your comments are making me very, very angry.

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    6. Got it, thanks for the clarification.

      I wasn't aware there were chemists who were "forced to teach as adjuncts". Wouldn't this violate the 13th amendment?

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    7. Wow, I've enjoyed baiting GC at times, but you are indeed the Master Baiter.

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    10. GC, deleted. Violation of the "you" rule.

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    11. Anonymous 7:23 here--just to be clear, I was referring/responding to biotechtoreador.

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  4. Fuel laundering makes a lot of sense if 80% or so of the cost of your gas is tax. That's a lot of money for launderers and buyers to split among themselves if they can pull it off.

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looks like Blogger doesn't work with anonymous comments from Chrome browsers at the moment - works in Microsoft Edge, or from Chrome with a Blogger account - sorry! CJ 3/21/20