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But he's from MIT so he must know what he's talking about.

Remember kids--and by kids, I mean fellow scientists--every presentation serves to either help secure or maintain funding.

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> Remember kids--and by kids, I mean fellow scientists--every presentation serves to either help secure or maintain funding.

What's the point of this statement? Funding is how things happen - these things don't happen out of thin air.

"Remember kids--and by kids, I mean fellow scientists--every presentation serves to either help doing or maintain doing."

Sometimes a presentation is just a presentation. A means of imparting unbiased knowledge.

It's a reminder not to think the presenter was honestly trying to teach

Or not necessarily that there isn't any noble intention in him, of course there is some. But, the pressure of keeping funding will always color their presentations, for example, to make them leave out other competing groups and ideas.

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