Future chemistry faculty will have to be twice as smart, work with twice the efficiency, and reach the correct positions of influence if they want this type of unhealthy cultural attitudes to finally be put to rest. This is my goal at least.
Update 1: Guido Koch now.
Update 2: The underlying macroeconomic cause for why professors can get away with this behavior.
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Update 4: A transcribed letter from Robert Tjian