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.
Your jokes about my home state are pathetic. I find the antisemitic underpinnings of your second joke particularly offensive. There is no need for an apology, just don't reply to me further.