week 10

For me there is little ethical about this question, what the professor wants to do breaks almost every ethical rule. I am a person who likes the concept of working on ideas and research which will actually improve the species, I am not a fan of publishing to get my name in another reference. I am so not a fan of that.

The story of “Mulhullen Falls” is actually in part based on very real events which took place after Atomic technology began accepted. At the start only some of the best and brightest were allowed in, because they were the ones capable of perofrming the tasks. However within 5 to 10 years, the “I look great”, but I am scienticificaly incomptant start to join the research teams. My grandmother who worked at an NMT for 20 years stated “There are test PhDs and real PhDs. The test doctors are great at parties and they work on the funding aspects. They smooch up real well to the donors and the military. However they are all thumbs in the laboratories. Usually they are relegated to working on aspects of research where they cannot hrt themselves or others.” for some reason for the test PhDs they are just fine with being just part of the situation. They are told what the real stuff is by the real scientists, who usually have little if any real social skills. The test PhDs then take the real data and tell the social groups, donors, and the military about the expariments. Keeping a good separation between the real guys and the social people. Why because the powerful usually become very insulted by the people who can actually do the real work. They are great in the labs but suck with interpersonal interactions. But 5 to 10 years after the basics are created, the test Ph’Ds become angry and jealous they are not able to be the shining star in the lab too. So they work hard to maneuver into the lab and try to take credit for others work. They culminate “assistance” who can do the work, but they take all the credit. The professor Plum sounds like a test Ph.D, his only interest in looking good but has no idea how to conduct the study correctly. His ego and arrogance is the only thing which really matters. In the movie the professor played by John Malkovich was surprised, since most of the people around him struggle to appear more cleaver than they are, whereas the detective is more cleaver than he appears.

Fictional characters like Tony Stark are an extreme rarity, those who can do the do in the lab as well as have sufficient social skills to work the party and with the military. Although that is mostly due to the acting social skills of RDJ, his has charisma to spare. RDJ is no hwere near as smart as that one fictional character he played Tony Stark or the other fictional character he played similar Sherlock Holmes. For that matter he is also no where near as bright as Charlie Chaplin. But as the social skills and acting skills to pretend he can, convincingly. In science, and academics the largest ethical issues professionals have to face are the facts that we humans can be easily sucked into the charm and charisma of those who want the accolades but have no lab skills. Since the people with lab skills tend to be abrasive and at times insulting/degrading.