http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-123361/Scientists-develope-fake-genetically-engineered-blood-use-battlefield.html.

Blood doping has some short-term value for sports., and I’d like to see Baby Boomers serve as the medical experimentation dummies before their pig is excreted from the demographic python.

…this sort of negligence almost borders on the criminal.

When a professional, trusted, and publicly funded research community performs this poorly— offering or supporting advice responsible for uncounted early deaths — it’s hard to argue that jolly acceptance is the right response.

There’s negligence, but there’s little or no value in pointing fingers at individuals. The failure and responsibility is diffused over an entire field. It’s institutional.

If institutional shortcomings were people, action would be much easier. With a face behind the wrong, the human instinct to punish wrongdoers could be channeled into an angry campaign to obliterate the vile institutional shortcomings…(still a problem here)…by deploying the weapon of gentle, considered, and constructive institutional innovation.

I’ll likely be entering academia soon, and I’ll do my best to promote reform. Unfortunately my field (math) is far from the epicenter of where this reform is most needed.