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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about this one?
[url]https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/14-year-old-scientist-heman-bekele-on-his-quest-to-fight-skin-cancer-with-soap[/url]
Fair or unfair? Rich or poor?[/quote]

Connected. The mentor is:  Deborah Isabelle she has an MS in Material Science.

It's not like that kid read into latest cancer fighting drugs, then read about skin cancer, then experimented between the how effective soap is to the skin cancer. That requires patients that have skin cancer and willing to have a 13 year old without a HS degree experiment on them.

This is exactly the fake HS research that the thread is complaining about.

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Working with a mentor makes it “fake”?

Then almost all research is “fake”.  :lol:

You have a very narrow, rigid view of what “research” is that would preclude many people working in research. 
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I said "Connected" - how did they get the mentors as a HS student? [/quote]

The kid won a science competition.

So is your gripe on how students are connected with mentors? 
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Yes and half the people replying on the thread. Connected - this isn't open to all kids. The Connected mentor makes a huge difference in the final outcome and execution. Independent HS researchers can't compete against Adult full-time pros. You either have competitions for those with mentors and those without or don't allow the deck to stack towards mentored projects.

Not sure why this is controversial.  [/quote]

I disagree. I know a kid who got a paid summer internship for two years through a club at school. The posting was only for members of the club. I bet it was a huge factor in admission results. Someone, not the kid, in the club was connected. How can you level the playing field in this case? You can’t. Life is unfair. [/quote]

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