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After shunning scientist, University of Pennsylvania celebrates her Nobel Prize — School that once demoted Katalin Karikó and cut her pay has made millions of dollars from patenting her work (www.wsj.com)
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After shunning scientist, University of Pennsylvania celebrates her Nobel Prize — School that once demoted Katalin Karikó and cut her pay has made millions of dollars from patenting her work::School that once demoted Katalin Karikó and cut her pay has made millions of dollars from patenting her work

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[–] zik@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The thing is she randomly got lucky and proven right due to a pandemic that no-one expected. There are a huge number of other scientists out there who were also right but never had that luck.

[–] Misconduct@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Randomly got lucky? What lol. Other scientists not being noticed doesn't in any way invalidate her. How absurd

[–] NightAuthor@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I think they’re just trying to say, even if you’re right, you can still get screwed over. She just happened to get lucky in having a solid real world situation to help vindicate her.