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kleinbl00 · 499 days ago · link · · parent · post: Exciting discovery leads to controversy as Harvard scientists collect fragments from interstellar meteor
"So it hasn't fitted into any of the traditional research mechanisms that people typically follow for a biological or geological science program." When asked why the team did not wait for the bureaucratic issues to be resolved, Mr McCallum said: "I'm not sure how to answer that." We paid the first bribe, and the second, and the third, but by the fourth we realized that we weren't paying bribes for any particular reason so we decided to stop and revisit the situation once we had generated enough clout to bypass the petty bureaucrats with their hands out.The team lodged multiple applications, none of which were approved.