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by BeFlatXIII 1804 days ago
Sounds like academic research publications. Sure, that will totally be a key step toward cancer therapy or better biofuels (realistically, the PI gets his jollies by shoving aldehyde groups onto random molecules)
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Oh, you mean like the guys who tried to inject vulnerabilities into the linux kernel and got their entire university on Greg Kroah-Hartman's shit list? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26887670
That sounds better than a PI that gets their jollies by shoving nitro groups into unsuspecting organic molecules.

Although I still have a deep admiration for the Klapƶtke "Energetic Materials" group at Munich Uni.