Calgary Herald: We tend to think of scientists as noble beings and science as the objective pursuit of truth. But once the fairy dust lifts, the reality is that science is a head-to-head competition — a race to see who can get the academic credit and public fame first. Consequently, the purity of that pursuit can be clouded by the lowest of human motivations and behaviours. During my graduate studies, I witnessed a bitter feud between two supposedly reasonable adults who lived on different …