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#1 Submitted by as1c06 on October 7, 2019 - 3:08pm

Beyond parody Nobels in the life sciences need to be scrapped All discoveries are accidents Who knows how much any of these three contributed anyway I would guess a lot less than some postdocs and PhDs who are essentially being fucked here

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