The only thing that comes close to scientific gossip is celebrity gossip, so when the two worlds collide, NRS investigates!
We noticed a few months ago, that a major essay/call to action by Paul Farmer et al. published in the Lancet had a few more recognizable names: Lance Armstrong and Sanjay Gupta, of the Lance Armstrong Foundation and CNN affiliations, respectively. We reluctantly concede that there are many ways to contribute to cancer research besides developing targeted therapies to test in mouse models, though their methods seem to be quicker than ours. If my fellow NRS journalist can't graduate, maybe she should start a foundation (but please no doping) or go on cable news shows to expedite the paper writing process. Although...we seriously wonder who actually wrote the Lancet paper. Side note: Armstrong is actually twice Pubmeddable, another time in J. Clinical Oncology.
So maybe Armstrong and Gupta have known expertise. But if you really want to feel inadequate about your laboratory accomplishments, recall the recent 83rd Annual Academy Awards. The Academy deemed that the two best lead performances belonged to Firth C, of the BBC Radio affiliation, and Hershlag N, of the Harvard University Department of Psychology, both of whom published papers involving brain scans. Apparently Firth is an author because he "commissioned" the research. Sounds like PI material. As for Hershlag N., the journal NeuroImage does not specify the contributions of each author, but we hear she actually studied at Harvard. So not only are these people gorgeous and rich and lead glamorous lives, as of this year, they're supposed to live longer too.
Lesson learned: cognitive science is the way to go.
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