David Wright, Director of the Office of Research Integrity – a subsidiary of DHS tasked with investigating scientific misconduct – recently issued a resignation letter after just two years on the job. The reason? It was “the best and worst job I’ve ever had,” he said, the latter thanks to “the remarkably dysfunctional HHS bureaucracy.” More specifically, Wright criticized the immense time required to perform basic job duties: “What I was able to do in a day or two as an academic administrator takes weeks or months in the federal government.” Citing the tendency for “public bureaucracies [to] quit being about serving the public and focus instead on perpetuating themselves,” Wright added, “This is exactly my experience. … We spend exorbitant amounts of time in meetings and in generating repetitive and often meaningless data and reports to make our precinct of the bureaucracy look productive.” Too bad it took working for the federal government to figure this out.