Comment Obligatory (Score 2, Funny) 796
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of slow-writing middle aged women suddenly cried out in terror.
Submission + - Former Intel CEO rips medical research
Himuanam writes: Former Intel CEO Grove rips medical research community, contrasting their lack of progress with the tech industry's juggernaut of breakthroughs over the past half-century or so.
"On Sunday afternoon, Grove is unleashing a scathing critique of the nation's biomedical establishment. In a speech at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, he challenges big pharma companies, many of which haven't had an important new compound approved in ages, and academic researchers who are content with getting NIH grants and publishing research papers with little regard to whether their work leads to something that can alleviate disease, to change their ways."
-From Newsweek story: http://www.newsweek.com/id/68221
"On Sunday afternoon, Grove is unleashing a scathing critique of the nation's biomedical establishment. In a speech at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, he challenges big pharma companies, many of which haven't had an important new compound approved in ages, and academic researchers who are content with getting NIH grants and publishing research papers with little regard to whether their work leads to something that can alleviate disease, to change their ways."
-From Newsweek story: http://www.newsweek.com/id/68221
Comment You're not going to get very many good comments... (Score 5, Insightful) 255
The most traumatic thing most of Slashdot has experienced is having their parents turn off their internet connection, come on, all we're going to get is comments about alcohol or how we're becoming a drug-obsessed culture.
Experience something *really* traumatic or know someone who has, and you'll see the benefit of research like this.
