Sabotaging experiments and flat tires.








2 thoughts on “Sabotaging experiments and flat tires.

  1. It happened to me when doing my PhD (chemistry) at a prestigious UK university in the 1980s. Things kept going wrong whenever my back was turned and I was publicly ridiculed, humiliated and branded incompetent. My supervisor was dismissive and unsympathetic and, despite ample circumstantial evidence and strange coincidences all pointing to one individual (who had already been given a warning after confessing to sabotaging a nmr spectrometer), no effort was made to identify the perpetrator. I did get my PhD, but was put right off the idea of an academic career after what happened, the perpetrator was never caught thereby denying me justice, and the experience haunts me still.

    • Steve, thank you for sharing your story. It is unfortunate that supervisors turn away from obvious problems only because of their vested interests. Such behavior, either of saboteurs or their protectors, should not be condoned. Besides being a criminal act, it also sets a wrong example.

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