Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!hsdndev!husc6!Frodo.MGH.Harvard.EDU!Ellington From: Ellington@Frodo.MGH.Harvard.EDU (Deaddog) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.bio-matrix Subject: Re: No Insults Intended, But... Message-ID: <5689@husc6.harvard.edu> Date: 11 Feb 91 14:53:41 GMT Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Organization: Molecular Biology, Mass. General Hospital Lines: 23 References: <620@av8tr.UUCP> In article <620@av8tr.UUCP> elliston@av8tr.UUCP (Keith Elliston) writes: > Don't think that real science (what is that anyway???) is only done in > academia. The best science I have seen of late has been done in the > industrial setting, and I don't think that I will ever consider > going back into academia for this very reason. I couldn't agree more. Which is why I am currently making the rather agonizing decision over whether to remain in academic science or go into industry. There is no reason that I couldn't Do What I Want To Do in industry; the real question is whether industry wants to do, What I Want To Do (Do-Doop-De-Doop). I am not anti-industry; I personally feel that some of the MOST innovative science being done is coming out of industry. But there is still a great deal of very good science that can only be done in an academic setting. And this science is getting bashed about the head by falling funding. And the Genome Boondoggle, that great Telephone Book of Human Sequences, is not helping matters. Non-woof