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Beauty Sci-Comm with Michelle Wong, Ph.D. of @labmuffinbeautyscience

The Eco Well podcast

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The Importance of Science Communicators in Cosmetics

There is this general misogyny around cosmetics like other science communicators look down on us. There's not much public funding for cosmetics research because I mean the government could fund cancer instead why would they be funding getting rid of wrinkles so without that public funding then there's not much incentive to publish publicly. medic companies don't want to share their research with their competitors unless there's a marketing advantage and so what happens is that in the peer-reviewed literature there're not much stuff. The big companies will just scrape off the top like the cream of the graduates and then absorb them into their company. If you do get hired into a company which most of the good cosmetic chemists do the big companies will

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