Corollary: sometimes when someone has an unimpressive resume it means they're lazy; sometimes it just means they're *extremely* allergic to futility.
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Of course, it's uncertain whether a project will be useful or futile; if you absolutely refuse to do anything that might be futile, you'll miss many chances to work on useful things.
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What are examples of this? Because this sounds fake to me.
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1.) Optimizing the hell out of target discovery & "rational drug design" is futile for discovering drugs, because most of the risk is later in the pipeline, when the drugs don't work on the disease in vivo. Very attractive topic for smart people, not very useful.
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that's case in point
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