I mean, have you ever seen things work out for a whistleblower?
At best, they get some 15 minutes of praise. At worst, straight to jail.
I don’t work anywhere near academia. I still wouldn’t blow the whistle or advise others to do so.
At best, they get some 15 minutes of praise. At worst, straight to jail.
I don’t work anywhere near academia. I still wouldn’t blow the whistle or advise others to do so.
>Bik’s venture into scientific sleuthing began as a hobby when she detected duplicated western blot images in a PhD thesis.
Now full time.
The "at worst" is worse: Two recent Boeing whistleblowers died in rather suspicious circumstances.
Were they completely innocent? Nobody is completely innocent, Cardinal Richelieu knew that. But they were definitely whistleblowers who went to jail.
You deserve the Nobel prize, but you critisized the work of someone? You get nothing! Swedish chemist Arrhenius blocked the Nobel price for Mendeleev because the later make some valid scientific critics the former didn't like.