What if you cross the beams?

Outsourcing.

From from my own experience doing research at a synchrotron, I call tell you there is nothing "day to day" about it. We get roughly one week to do as much as humanly possible in an environment which drains you (16+ hour days under high fluorescent lighting with the incessant hum of vacuum pumps and machinery).

The scientific environment is electric. Things get done - ideas flourish and are crushed in minutes as a gaggle of intelligent scientists throw ideas around and call on their years of experience. Copious amounts of coffee are consumed and everyone stands there silent when the a-ha moment arrives and all the hard work comes together.

It might be hard for an outsider to appreciate this, and there is a chance this isn't the norm when it comes to the average synchrotron experience.

Nor does selective memory, confirmation bias, psychosomatic induced illness, willingness to belief, distaste for progress mean that they exist too.

It's called scapegoating. Its where you blame your problems on someone or something else. Perhaps one of the most troubling aspects of humanities ability to notice false patterns (ever since Martha moved into town there has been nothing but bad luck) and to not end up on the other end. The whole mythology of Christ, which our societies have emerged from, revolves around an elaborate scapegoating. Problems never get solved (unless its psychosomatic) and people are killed or run out of town due to these irrational beliefs.

Until something goes bad (flood, drought, poor tourism) and they need a scapegoat in the form of say a "witch" and run them out of town or kill them. This type of thinking is never good and can lead to "good people doing bad things" because they were too stupid to stop and think if what they are claiming is based on evidence or reason instead of superstition. So no, this type of religious thinking isn't "not that bad" and leads to so-called justifiable homicide from incorrect premises. (Witches should be killed, fortunately witches do not exist, etc)

Can you buy a gun from Amazon? They seem to sell everything else nowadays.

You will find out in a couple of quarters time when it wont matter anymore.

Capitalism.
You're doing it wrong!!!

Sounds like a Bush plan to keep him in the Whitehouse as long as possible. Damn Republicans messing with our science.

Now that's one Christmas gift I'm happy to get!

I know that professor. Trust me, he isn't doing anything but being the team leader and gets to attach his name to everything.
He's successful because he applies for grant money, hires quality staff and administers multiple projects thanks to his years of expertise. (He also likes shaking hands of politicians and appearing on TV)
The quality work comes from his minions (post doc's, etc) and he basks in their collective glory.
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This sounds like a good way to filter journals which are lax with their standards. It might also weed out peers who are too lazy (or stupid) to contribute to the process.
So I for one welcome our new document-producing computer overlords, which is just as well as they already seem to be used as part of Slashdot's editorial process.

1) Send humans into space
2) Redefine the boundary between space and atmosphere
3) ...
4) Profit!!

What about nothingofvaluewaslost?
Could even throw in a correlationisnotcausation or maybe vaporware.