From DAVID HUGHES
John Mooney intimates that the young scientist with the impressive research
record is one and the same as the communication-shy introvert (Letters,
8 September). His message is that if the universities recruit the former
they turn their back on the latter. Do not believe him. Good researchers
are good communicators: they have to be. If you cannot communicate, your
results do not get published, your grants dry up and your potential students
ride off into the sunset.
Let us fill the universities with top-notch researchers. These are the
people that have something to say, something worth listening to, and the
vast majority of them say it very well.
David Hughes University of Sheffield
