Then, this past April, she teamed up with three other scientific superstars — Bruce Alberts, former president of the National
Academy of Sciences and former editor - in - chief of Science; Marc W. Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of
Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School; and Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate, former director of NIH, and current director of the National Cancer Institute — to publish «Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws,» a critique and call for reform that
seems already to have altered the course of the workforce debate, in the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
There are two holes in this argument, a two school
system has existed for many decades; LA and private (the majority of government ministers
seem to have done ok having been schooled through the latter) plus
academies and LA schools have and can co-exist quite easily.