David Pare on Malone News

[David Pare]

From my brief time in academia, I saw that most grad students were political, but not very good at "getting stuff done." So we never hired any of them once my friends and I got into industry. After all - we had products to deliver. "Those who can't do - waste another 3 years and get a PhD." I was lucky to graduate; it just wasn't my place. Industry was about 100 times more fun.

Naomi Wolf has a group of people scouring those Pfizer documents. Her team gets stuff done. It's an awesome project, too. She is clearly not just "political." So - full points. And she can work with Steve Bannon. Points there too. She's all about getting stuff done. She passes my interview. She 's a rare PhD that actually knows how to do stuff. So I keep an open mind and listen to what she says.

Clearly you get stuff done too. That's why I listen to you as well. Not because of titles or "science" training. Because you've done stuff. You think out of the box. You haven't just Faucied your way through life. I value that. But that's just me.

[Micheal Nash, Ph. D.]

Have to agree with your assessment. Think things changed when they dropped requirement for masters before going to Ph.D. The masters degree was where one really learned lab work. And those showing aptitude for critical thinking advanced to the Ph.D. Most Ph.D. students now enter a lab, passed hand to hand in an old boy network, to work on a prof's grant and are required to turn a single crank and feed off of the others as they do you. You leave that lab pitifully prepared for what comes next. Saw several instances Ph.D.s hired from big name labs given grants mainly on those creds and flopped. Had to worm into an inhouse network to keep the money flowing. I was a lab tech for 10 yrs before going bsck to school.