What does my work history have to do with anything? How about we start with you telling me yours and what makes you think you are such an expert in these matters?
And, what does my living in Maryland have to do with anything? I happen to like living here. You aobiously know little about Maryland.
It might, it might not.
And Dingbat here talked about the government hiring thousands of biochemists/molecular biologists, and the like; and they talk to each other.
Maryland is home to a whole bunch of Federal workers, including NIH in Bethesda, outside of DC.
Here's a couple of Maryland jokes.
Q. What's the first words a Dundalk baby says?
A. "Attention, Wal-Mart shoppers."
Q. What's the shortest route from Israel to Africa?
A. Park Heights Avenue!
P.S. Re-elect Ellen Sauerbrey.
For mine? I don't go around talking about everyone I've met as though I'm on a first-name basis with them decades later, then call them a kook, like she's done on these threads about Dr. Malone. Besides, Dingbat here says I don't even have a high-school level understanding of science.
It's funny, because she's putting links to 100-level biology textbooks, and earlier, on another thread, she gave a link to Molecular Biology of the Cell, 7th Edition. At first I had high hopes, because I remember reading a book of that title I bought on the clearance rack from the public library for $2, co-authored by (can't remember which, it's in storage right now) either Watson or Crick, (Yes, the real Watson & Crick, I checked). But when I looked at her recommended texts, it looked far less rigorous than the one I used as an undergraduate over 30 years ago.
She claims to have been on a first-name basis with Dr. Malone, and then later, amended that to she had done a project for a few weeks in his lab in grad school, apparently while deciding what group to work for. But she claims she knows more RNA chemistry than him. That's not so certain: at a professional level, or even during a PhD/MD, you learn to pick up related concepts on your own without having to be spoon-fed them by a teacher as in high-school or college.