"Something to think about"
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The fabric of academic science has become so riddled with commercial entanglements that they have even started to take a noticeable toll on graduate students. Early in their academic careers, most young scientists are asked to choose one professor, or mentor, who will instruct them in both the technical and ethical aspects of good scholarship and scientific practice - a relationship that usually lasts for the duration of their apprenticeship training and beyond. As one professor wrote, the "research group is like an extended family or a small tribe, dependent on one another, but led by a mentor, who acts as their consultant, critic, judge, advisor, and scientific father."[...] Lately, though, research groups at many schools have come to behave less like an extended family than like a cut-throat business enterprise.
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(op. cit., p. 85)
Jennifer Washburn (2006). University, Inc. The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education. Basic Books, New York. (pp. 352)