The Argument for Analytical Instruments

Hard times are here, budgets have been cut to the bone, and it's tough to argue for a better instrument when your organization is looking at the bigger picture of survival. But society as a whole needs those instruments and the people to run them for excellent and urgent public safety reasons: to find swine flu, catch criminals, and ensure the safety of our food and drugs. Does job survival for those in labs lie in retooling our priorities away from just profit and towards the public good? Or is it time to focus more narrowly on our organization's ability to extract maximum profit from a smaller pool of customers?

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