{"id":103,"date":"2012-04-20T15:42:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T15:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/innovscience.com\/wordpress\/?p=103"},"modified":"2012-04-20T15:42:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T15:42:42","slug":"story-of-the-goat-man-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innovscience.com\/wordpress\/uncategorized\/story-of-the-goat-man-part-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Story of the Goat Man (Part 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Somewhere around this time Sam had a bad accident.\u00a0 While holding a 4L beaker the bottom literally collapsed into his right hand and the upper lip broke in his left hand.\u00a0 This resulted in a trip to the ER, about 12 stitches and a long rehab.\u00a0 The accident almost cost Sam complete movement of his thumb, the tendon (according to the woman who sewed Sam up) was almost cut.\u00a0 It took about 3 months of time for Sam to regain the bulk of movement of this thumb.\u00a0 Clearly the accident was caused by faulty glassware (see above) and days after his return to the GM lab Sam had the GM\u2019s secretary at the time (Mrs. Canned Corn) transcribe his recount of the events (see below).\u00a0 As it turned out similar paperwork had to be filed with the University of Asscrack by the GM.\u00a0 Sam saw the GM\u2019s account (see below) and was disturbed because it was completely falsified.\u00a0 Even on requesting that the GM change this incorrect account of events the GM never did.<\/p>\n

Now Sam had affirmation, the GM was nothing more than a liar.\u00a0 Still, the GM was only getting started.\u00a0 The GM next moved Sam to a new project; however, within a few weeks the GM was not pleased with the results so Sam was again without a project for his degree.\u00a0 Mind you Sam had now been in the GM\u2019s lab for about 2 years and had nothing to show for his efforts as the GM would not allow him to finish the first project or proceed on the second one.\u00a0 Some time passed and then what would seem good news (at the time) arrived.\u00a0 The GM had a new postdoc (Dr. Smirnov) and also the thesis from a student in Japan (I have a copy of the latter provided to Sam by the GM).\u00a0 The Japanese had devised the most marvelous of inventions and now it was the GM who was going to further advance the idea.\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. Smirnov had already obtained good results and all Sam had to do was simply replicate Smirnov\u2019s results and then he could graduate.<\/p>\n

Sam began by simply watching a number of the experiments.\u00a0 They took a long time to complete and due to the cost of the catalyst they had to be done carefully.\u00a0 Still, they managed to work each time and after seeing how easy the chemical manipulations were Sam knew it would be no time before he would finish the project.\u00a0 Once Sam got his turn to do the experiments by himself he didn\u2019t get any product.\u00a0 Dr. Smirnov informed Sam that is was due to poor technique.\u00a0 Sam was worried so he kept at it.\u00a0 But time and time again Sam was never able to make a single milligram of product.\u00a0 Oddly enough when the reaction was setup and run by Smirnov it always worked.\u00a0 Sam began to view the data Smirnov was presenting during the meetings with the GM and he began to realize that something was wrong.\u00a0 The data always seemed to be almost identical!\u00a0 Still according the GM and Smirnov the problem was with Sam and not the chemistry.\u00a0 So Sam continued to work feverously and within a very short time (after working 12-14 hour days) Sam had conducted almost 100 failed experiments.\u00a0 Smirnov now became erratic in his behavior.\u00a0 He would sweat profusely in the lab despite the well air-conditioned environment.\u00a0 His body odor was so bad that it was almost intolerable to be within 15-20 feet of him.\u00a0 Smirnov now began to say things to Sam like he could wind up going to Siberia in a small box if he didn\u2019t do what he was told.\u00a0 Sam began receiving death threats from Smirnov and things from his desk were disappearing such that Sam had to start locking everything into a filing cabinet each day.\u00a0 Smirnov was crazed and it would be very easy to slip a few hundred milligrams of cyanide or another toxic chemical common to the lab into Sam\u2019s food or drink.\u00a0 The other students of the herd knew what was going on but wouldn\u2019t say a word to anyone.<\/p>\n

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