Tag: mRNA vaccines

Nobel Prize Medal on a Velvet background

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Jeffrey Funk
Date
April 11, 2025

Categorized
Peer Review, Science

Tagged
Breaking Through (Bodley Head 2024), Drew Weissman, Featured, Jerry Muller, Katalin Karikó, mRNA vaccines, publish or perish, Tyranny of Metrics (Princeton University Press 2018), University of Pennsylvania}

University Science War: Ideas vs “Dollars per Net Square Footage”

_{Katalin Karikó, obscure and mistreated at the University of Pennsylvania, won the Nobel Prize. Shouldn’t we have some questions?} _{Jeffrey Funk
April 11, 2025

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Peer Review, Science}

Karikó’s story, as outlined in her book, highlights a big problem with universities: ideas matter less than sheer numbers of papers published. Read More ›