If you are a postdoc or a junior faculty in the biomedical sciences, you have probably seen this infamous cartoon by Dent:
Yesterday I was talking with my good pal Dan and we were discussing a few other great pieces by Dent. After that conversation, I did what anyone else would do, I Googled the guy. Little did I know, I had just stumbled into a gold mine!
Here it is: http://dentcartoons.blogspot.com/
Proceed with caution.
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Thanks Alex! I had a copy of that over my bench all through grad school, but I never knew who'd created it.