Harry Guerrilla
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You should see some of the rules on the labs...you'd think that we were handling weapons grade plutonium or something when it's just optical grade methanol.
I work in a warehouse, we have to have MSDS sheets for engine oil and anti freeze and have to do half assed training on how to clean up chemical spills.
It's idiotic.
I think one of the real problems with Academia is that it's being treated as a business when it's not really a business. Dilutes the education and pulls focus from where it should be.
I agree.
If anything it's exploratory research and I tend to think that if it's subsidized by the state, the fruits of such research should be open source (no patent protections for the results).