The Dirty Secrets of Your TradeSo, Television is a hot bed of lies, deceit and made up competitions. We can't say that we are that surprised... every job is full of this stuff. It's not like the newspapers currently kicking TV whilst it is down are all that innocent.
We'd like you to even things out a bit. Spill the beans on your own trade. Tell us the dirty secrets that the public need to know.
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chthonic, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 10:31)
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Nobel PrizewinnersAnother friend-of-a-friend story, I'm afraid. But a good'un...
It is no secret that PhD students are often used as skivvies for their high-profile colleagues; it's par for the course. In some countries, they're exploited more than others. In Germany, for example, I believe that you're open to all kinds of exploitation until after you've completed your habilitationschrift - a kind of second PhD - and the more high-profile your supervisor, the less the incentive to complain.
I have it on good authority, though, that there is at least one nobel laureate (in Germany, I think, but am not sure) whose books tend to be entirely ghostwritten by his research students.
I reckon that's pushing it a bit.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 28 Sep 2007, 14:13,
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