After shunning scientist, University of Pennsylvania celebrates her Nobel Prize — School that once demoted Katalin Karikó and cut her pay has made millions of dollars from patenting her work::School that once demoted Katalin Karikó and cut her pay has made millions of dollars from patenting her work

  • zik@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The thing is she randomly got lucky and proven right due to a pandemic that no-one expected. There are a huge number of other scientists out there who were also right but never had that luck.

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      1 year ago

      Randomly got lucky? What lol. Other scientists not being noticed doesn’t in any way invalidate her. How absurd

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        1 year ago

        I think they’re just trying to say, even if you’re right, you can still get screwed over. She just happened to get lucky in having a solid real world situation to help vindicate her.

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        1 year ago

        “Humans are pretty dumb”
        follows up by stating a badly structured and unsubstantiated subjective analysis of an economic system which was never used

        Whew, lads.