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ylai@lemmy.ml to Science@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

UPenn slammed for celebrating Nobel prize of vaccine researcher it once demoted

www.independent.co.uk

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UPenn slammed for celebrating Nobel prize of vaccine researcher it once demoted

www.independent.co.uk

ylai@lemmy.ml to Science@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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University once reportedly discouraged Katalin Karikó from pursuing mRNA research that later helped create Covid vaccines
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    Wait so she took to heart the criticism levied against her and improved herself? What’s the problem? She wasn’t good enough, she worked hard, did better and became good enough.

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      What you suggested cannot be further from the truth. The paper that got her the Nobel was from 2005 (https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(05)00211-6, see also cited in https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2023/press-release/), and UPenn claimed in 2013 — at least 7 years later — that she would not be “of faculty quality” (https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mrna-coronavirus-vaccine-pfizer-biontech).

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      The context is literally in the article. The research she is literally winning a NOBEL PRIZE for was not deemed good enough for UPenn, and she was not reinstated to tenure track.

      It’s not some “kumbayah I need to work harder” bullshit you see on corporate sales teams. How the fuck does one exactly “work harder” to improve their “personal” mRNA sequencing methods?

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      No

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