This situation simply reflects the intrinsically competitive nature of knowledge construction and its political dynamics.
These articles detail the Sisyphean reality of those who stay inside academia, most of the time under very precarious conditions that can be extreme depending on which country you are working. Many candidates of the Holy Grail position in academia will be involved in a continuous succession of post-doc positions known as “permadoc,” as was brilliantly described by Shelly Sandiford in Next Scientist and Kendall Power in Nature. The fact that many of us as scientists have faced (or will face) this choice are apparent when looking at the data itself: Tenure-track success in the average science career is only 0,45%. The choice can present itself in either a subtle and graduated way or in a shocking and abrupt fashion. They deal with a decision between staying in the Academic Wonderland they have grown comfortable in or to take the red pill and enter into an alternative career path.
Many science professionals face a similar dilemma day to day. The options were to either take the blue pill and stay in the simulation world in which he has been living and “stay in Wonderland” or to explore the real world and see “how deep the rabbit hole goes,” which in this case was the red pill. 1999´s blockbuster “The Matrix” made us familiar with the “red pill philosophy.” In a provocative scene when Morpheus offers to Neo an election which later determined the outcome of the story’s hero.
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