Scientific Skinflints, Post-doc Salaries and What it Means for the Future of Science

Nature cites ‘fundamental threat’

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I can’t remember when I first heard the term “post-doc slaves.”

But it was sometime after I began writing about the $12 billion California stem cell agency in 2005. It was something of a surprise to me, but not entirely.  I came from the newspaper business, which was and still is known for its bottom-of-the-barrel s…