6 | Harmit Malik’s dark alleys to discovery
In this episode, Itai and Martin talk to Harmit Malik, Professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and President of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. Harmit’s main Night Science tool is to talk again and again about the same puzzling observation to different people, drawing variations of the same story on the blackboard. At some point, he says, you realize that something in your story never changes - that is where the false assumptions are. Harmit thinks that in pretty much every important result he published, there was a point where he thought the project had…
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