{"id":19220,"date":"2022-02-08T09:03:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T07:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=19220"},"modified":"2022-02-13T17:44:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T15:44:43","slug":"lander-landed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/02\/lander-landed\/","title":{"rendered":"Lander landed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He basically killed one of my best papers by the <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/7581446\/\">Kruglyak-Lander<\/a> rule of what is being &#8220;significant&#8221;. He started the stupid\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanscientist.org\/blog\/macroscope\/why-eric-lander%E2%80%99s-controversial-paper-%E2%80%9Cthe-heroes-of-crispr%E2%80%9D-is-not-solid-historical\">CRISPR origin<\/a> discussion. But now he<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/bidens-top-science-adviser-resigns-after-investigation-into-workplace-bullying\/\"> steps down<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Biden\u2019s top science adviser Eric Lander resigned on Monday after an investigation revealed he violated the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White House<\/a>\u2018s workplace policy by mistreating staff members<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>details at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10485331\/Bidens-science-advisor-Eric-Lander-bullied-demeaned-staff-White-House-probe-finds.html\">dailymail.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lander &#8216;retaliated against staff for speaking out and asking questions by calling them names, disparaging them, embarrassing them in front of their peers, laughing at them, shunning them, taking away their duties, and replacing them or driving them out of the agency. Numerous women have been left in tears, traumatized, and feeling vulnerable and isolated,&#8217; Wallace told the outlet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Statnews has\u00a0 a good <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/02\/09\/the-fall-of-eric-lander-and-the-end-of-sciences-big-ego-era\/\">commentary<\/a> about &#8220;The fall of Eric Lander and the end of science\u2019s &#8220;big ego\u2019 era&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0It\u2019s not quite \u201cbig science,\u201d which isn\u2019t going anywhere. Call it \u201cbig ego.\u201d In science, \u201cbig ego\u201d isn\u2019t exactly a new phenomenon. But in recent decades it grew with the emergence of researchers who could both handle the kind of gloves-off debate that can mark academic discourse and marshal vast resources to make certain types of scientific discoveries, like mapping genomes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 05.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He basically killed one of my best papers by the Kruglyak-Lander rule of what is being &#8220;significant&#8221;. He started the stupid\u00a0 CRISPR origin discussion. But now he steps down President Biden\u2019s top science adviser Eric Lander resigned on Monday after an investigation revealed he violated the\u00a0White House\u2018s workplace policy by mistreating staff members details at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/02\/lander-landed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lander landed<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19220"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19322,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19220\/revisions\/19322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}