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Conspiracy Theories, Birthday Trauma, and a Week of Chaos

This week’s episode of Controlled Burn is exactly what the title promises: chaos. We kick things off with airplane snacks and Sonic cravings, detour through Red Lobster birthday trauma, and spiral into conspiracy theories.

There’s no major industry news this week, unless you count one of our instruments breaking and turning the lab into a stress factory. Solvent backlogs, turnaround pressure, and client communication all get very real as we talk through what happens when testing doesn’t go according to plan and how we handle it without losing our minds (or our relationships).

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