I expect you probably have a academia background
Sorry, Biotech, you missed by a mile. I couldn't survive in the authoritarian academic world. I am at a loss to explain the reason for its singular success in basic research.
Whether it was the unschooled physicist Ovshinski whose scientific discoveries and inventions are still changing our world or a man like Einstein who spent his life in academia but dreamed of being a plumber with his hatred of the system, few scientists are enamored of dictatorial rule.
I was fascinated with a Russian "sugar" scientist whose deep science was first experimented with at Moscow University where he was a professor. In America he was CSO of a biotech developing his science until he tired of the bitter warfare and took a professorship at Yale where he gets to hear Ivy League insults fired at his wide-ranging scholarship, most notably his theory that the Neanderthals evolved in Europe where nearly all evidence of their previous existence resides rather than in Sub-Saharan Africa where a non-human primate is claimed to be mother of us all. There is no sign whatever of even Neanderthal genes of the big-brained, family-loving humans in southern Africa that white supremacists set so much store by.
Dr. Frost earned his billions from his research and genius rather than duplicity. He is no academic either but recognizes its value.
Takes all kinds actually.
Take care.
Terry
