Riding In Cars With Researchers

What are virtuous and vicious cycles? They are chains of events, many times very complex chains of events, that are like dominoes:  One thing is contributing to another thing, is contributing to a third and a fourth, and they are self-reinforcing - heading in a certain direction. They'll continue in that spiral until an external force breaks the cycle and allows the chain of events to change. These cycles are everywhere. They're in our bodies, in our own biochemistry, self-reinforcing cycles in a direction. They are in economics, in how cities attempt to change neighborhoods from being in dire poverty to entering the middle class, and in the research world. They are even in our own family dynamics: how we raise our kids and how we run our families.  But I'm specifically going to talk about the research world and I'm going to talk about the fact that I believe we are in a vicious cycle when it comes to sites and principle investigators, and what I think we need to do about it.