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A really unsettling thing: American (I'm sure also European) scientists traveling to much lower income countries, doing science on sexy ecosystems and organisms, and then coming back to the States and publishing in high impact journals.
Who is talking/thinking abt this?
Who is talking/thinking abt this?
I am asking the google who and where are we discussing this serious problem. Modern intellectual colonialism? Modern scientific colonialism? You know, where you head off somewhere and take their science, bring it back and publish/build your career.
The thing is, it looks to me like entire labs are built on this, without a thought on its implications. Students come out of these labs trained in this as a perfectly valid way of studying ecology - and they never have to think about those implications.
You know my "functions don't call other functions" mantra?
I stand by it.
I stand by it.
Functions shouldn't call other functions in almost every scenario
They can, but they shouldn't.
They can, but they shouldn't.
Not to say that there are some specialised scenarios where it's *really useful* for you to call another function directly! There are.
