http://miareviews.com Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:13:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The periodic small-mindedness and nastiness of academia is illuminated through John Beowulf’s fictitious tale of a Ph.D candidate, John Stevic, of the Department of Microbiology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Stevic more often than not produced experiments that gave inconclusive results. He also was subjected to physical abuse at ... http://miareviews.com/2008/01/21/after-the-rain/