The fall of Crick 14, part II (22nd of January 2013)

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Your Scientific Secretly, ac. tech. Alenykky,

I write to you worried about the state of the Institute for kvittocibin mushroom research, hoping that Your Secrecy will be able to do something about it. In the text which follows, I will roughly sketch this state, and I am prepared to explain to you all the details in a more suitable form.

The Institute for kvittocibin mushroom research begun disintegrating with the arrival of the present governing supervisor, ac. fung. Ryttop Rennaal. He came to the function from the position of long-year assistant of the previous supervisor, ac. fung. Nimrod Nullat, who was also the mentor of his mushroom habilitation, which fundamentally determined the actions of ac. fung. Rennaal in the past five years. In the past five years, namely, ac. fung. Rennaal, did almost nothing else but poisoning human relations at the Institute for kvittocibin mushroom research and preparing the ground for emeritic conservation of ac. fung. Nimrod Nullat. It started already with his inaugural speech and program in which he announced a possible need for conservation of senior mushroom researchers, but I must admit that at that time I didn't even dream about the pathological proportions his ideas and actions will later assume.

Ryttop Rennaal

Just about when ac. fung. Rennaal started his supervising, I also started leading my mushroom module, so I had to cooperate, willing or not, with the supervisor, if for nothing else then for requests for the equipment and conference visits. And already in these, the most trivial aspects of scientific work, I saw, to me, at that time, completely incomprehensible uncooperativity of ac. fung. Rennaal and constant reexamination and slowing down of my requests for equipment, biomaterials, and similar.

I reported several times to the Mushroom Council about my problems with the supervisor, but I got no positive reaction. The last letter which I on 4th of March 2193 sent to the Council (attachment 1) as a reaction to the letter of ac. fung. Sebard Smetter, contains, among other:

The lack of any constructive reaction of big majority of the Mushroom Council to my previous letter sent by holo-mail to all members of the Council (the problem with the installation of myceli-air-conditioner) tells to me that some scientists o the Institute are more equal than others in the eyes of 'us, the scientists of Crick 14'. As all of you had the chance to hear in my holo-mail, supervisor Rennaal assumes an incorrect and bullying attitude towards me and my requests for equipment must pass multiple controls and blocking attempts, even when the equipment in question is easily and smoothly acquired for the needs of other modules and laboratories (including the myceli-air-conditioners 1). This obstructs and discriminates against (and here I deliberately use the vocabulary of ac. fung. Smetter) my research, disturbs my health, lowers the potentials of the Institute, but also heavily damages the human relations. All of it also deepens 'the generation gap at the Institute'.

From the present position I know that I wasn't the only one to experience supervisor's, only seemingly irrational stubbornness, but all those who dared to do something and ask for the needs of their module anything outside that which he considered correct. And his ideas of "correctness" and, research work in general, border with totalitarian.

Protoschemes and other documents about the inner regulation at the Institute

The ideas of ac. fung. Rennaal about the regulation of scientific activity on Crick 14 can be seen best from the series of documents (the so-called "protoschemes") which he managed to establish during his mandate, only results of which, and I also think the goal, is the rise of mistrust and fear among the workers of the Institute. Among other, he regulated, according to present Law of scientific activity, free mushroom research, with one of his "protoschemes", introducing effectively censorship and demanding of each mushroom researcher of the Institute to, before sending their paper to review, send a copy of the paper to his office. The aim of this procedure was his inspection of the paper and the stopping of its publication in cases he deems appropriate.

In some normal circumstances, perhaps, there would be nothing disputable about it, if the supervisor didn't have a very clear opinion about kinds of the mushroom activities which are in the interest of the Institute and those which are not. He also publicly stated his opinion on the meetings of the Mushroom Council. To my great misfortune, my research activity, for example, according to him 2 is outside of the focus which the Institute should follow. In this respect, the quality of my research is not at all important, and I am, from my own experience, certain that in his estimate of "quality" of someone's research, the only criterion of importance is whether that someone follows his instructions without reproach or not. From such a totalitarian position, ac. fung. Ryttop Rennaal managed to bring threat, fear and mistrust in a creative, free and beautiful activity as mushroom science is. He also managed to irreversibly damage human relations.

Supervisor Rennaal, with a series of his protoschemes and public statements 2 brought himself to a conflict of interest, demanding of all scientists to pass his control (!) before publishing their research papers, and at the same time stating that some research is in the interest of the Institute, and some not.

Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge, majority of the mushroom module leaders silently accepted this censorial order and they, even today, regularly send their papers to the Office of the supervisor. I could not accept such routine because I think that I would in this way lower both my profession and myself. But, with each paper I did not send to his inspection, rage of ac. fung. Rennaal towards me grew more, and my regular activity became obstructed and stopped to a larger degree, for "formal" reasons.

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1 It should be added here that supervisor Rennaal, practically at the same time when he rejected my request for the purchase of myceli-air-conditioning device for my module, accepted the purchase of exactly the same device for the module he collaborates on. This is only one in the series of conflicts of interests of the scientist Rennaal and the supervisor Rennaal.

2 Ac. fung. Rennaal stated on the 7th meeting of the Mushroom High Council, on 29th of November 2192 that "the Institute must thoroughly consider which of the priorities in mushroom research should be put forth to the Agency and the public. If we pick wrong priorities, for example the ruptures in the mushroom-bent space-time, we might find ourselves in the awkward situation to explain why we deal with it when the resources for such research are better on other stations." Ruptures in the mushroom-bent space-time are the main subject of my mushroom module.

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Last updated on 22nd Of January 2013.