Sunday, August 29, 2010  Research Incest - It's a Game the Whole
Research Group can Enjoy  Research ethics, you want to talk
about ethics?  It seems that people recently have been concerned
about the omnipresent PI and how a supervisor is responsible for
things that occur when they have their back turned. The whole
“the PI has responsibilities for everything that occurs in their
lab” issue got me to thinking about a friend of mine.  My friend
was (and is) one of the best set of hands in Main Group
synthetic chemistry. He had just started as an independent
researcher and spent all of his available funds on two graduate
students and a post-doc. Things were going very, very well for
about six months. Then, one day in the late fall, my friend
walked into the lab to discover his post-doc and one of his
graduate students, on the floor, on top of a pile of lab coats
recreating the more disturbing parts of “Monsters Ball”.  The
post-doc and graduate student were married … just not to each
other.  I just hope they use