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UPenn slammed for celebrating Nobel prize of vaccine researcher it once demoted
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2023
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Wait so she took to heart the criticism levied against her and improved herself? What's the problem? She wasn't good enough, she worked hard, did better and became good enough.
What you suggested cannot be further from the truth. The paper that got her the Nobel was from 2005 (https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(05)00211-6, see also cited in https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2023/press-release/), and UPenn claimed in 2013 — at least 7 years later — that she would not be “of faculty quality” (https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mrna-coronavirus-vaccine-pfizer-biontech).
The context is literally in the article. The research she is literally winning a NOBEL PRIZE for was not deemed good enough for UPenn, and she was not reinstated to tenure track.
It’s not some “kumbayah I need to work harder” bullshit you see on corporate sales teams. How the fuck does one exactly “work harder” to improve their “personal” mRNA sequencing methods?
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