How science has been poisoned Why I wrote a humorous...

How science has been poisoned Why I wrote a humorous murder mystery"Poisonous Science" is my first novel. My day job is as a biochemist and university professor. A dozen years ago I got an idea for a novel. It was about how some scientists behaving in less than admirable ways can affect the lives of others by being unfair in their reviews of research articles and grant proposals. Scientists already know this, but much of the public doesn't realize how much petty jealousy and dishonesty can be in the heart of a few, but sometimes very influential, academics.

In the next decade, about the only thing I did about it was write an outline. Then, two years ago I decided it couldn't wait any longer. This is because submitting grant proposals, which had increasingly become like high stakes gambling, was being distorted even more by cuts in federal funding of research. Many outstanding scientists, particularly among the next generation, have given up. This adversely affects advances in the field and severely threatens the leadership of the US in biomedical and other sciences. To make it clear that this isn't sour grapes on my part, I'll reveal my good fortune in having continued to be funded by the National Institutes of Health. But my novel deals with how this absurd situation can lead to someone becoming unhinged enough to seek revenge when their life is disrupted by an unfair review and loss of grant funding. The book's title, "Poisonous Science," refers to both the problems with some of the characters in the book and that it takes place in the world of toxicology. Yes, I cannot resist the opportunity to make a pun.

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