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Nature 448, 533 (2 August 2007) | doi:10.1038/448533a; Published online 1 August 2007

Profit or perish even worse than publish or perish

Edward Kiegle1

  1. Moonshine Mushrooms, PO Box 927, 251 Putnam Hill Road, Chester, Vermont 05143, USA

Michael Alvarez, in his Recruiters article 'System-ready scientists' (Nature 447, 612; 2007) advises young scientists to consider how they can fit into and enhance the labour force, even though this course might seem dehumanizing to them. He advises universities to gather information from government and industry about their 'design specifications' for incoming talent, to help them develop graduate training programmes that produce suitably qualified trainees.

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