• Question: What's the most frustrating thing about being a scientist?

    Asked by to Claire, Ian, Sergey, Vicky, Zena on 19 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Zena Hira answered on 19 Jun 2014:

      Lack of funding i think. Many people with great ideas cannot work on them because no one will fund the research

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      Vicky Schneider answered on 19 Jun 2014:

      sometimes the politics…

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      Claire Shooter answered on 20 Jun 2014:

      People taking credit for other people’s ideas, or trying to manipulate their data to make it look like it says something it doesn’t.

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      Ian Simpson answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      The way in which scientific research is published is broken. The journal system including peer-review needs to be revolutionised to be fit for the modern age. It can take up to a year to get the bigger papers published which is ridiculous.

      There is currently a big push towards open access publishing, community peer-review and impact by citation. With any luck we will start to see some major changes soon.

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