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Preach. The way out is to find truly basic problems that you’re attacking at a fundamental level.

That rarely gets funded. And even more rarely handed off to grad students. In a sense the failure of a bunch of grad students is priced in to the way science is done.

Which makes it so perverse their lives and careers depend on success as newcomers.



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