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ACS NEWS Reactions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail C&EN, 2022, 100 (7), p 3February 21, 2022Cite this:C&EN 100, 7, 3 Letters to the editor ACS awards My semiregular rant about the American Chemical Society and awards. I am an 8 years’ retired industrial chemist. I still do some consulting. I am an ACS member because of C&EN, SciFinder, and the occasional journal article. No other offerings from ACS are useful to me.For students, here is what ACS is telling you: If you choose a career in industry, good luck. We really do not value the contribution of industrial chemists. Why do I say this? Look at the list of ACS awards. Virtually all of them go to academics or pseudo-academics, if you count national labs or places like Scripps Research. For years I have been complaining about the favoritism and bias toward academic chemists in the ACS awards program. Nothing has changed because ACS is still an old people’s (used to be boys’) network of academics. Larry Lewis Scotia, New York Corrections Jan. 24, 2022, page 16: The feature story about the development of Paxlovid incorrectly identifies a critical amino acid contact in the protease’s binding site: it is glutamine, not glycine. The story also contains an error in the structure of the benzothiazol-2-yl ketone candidate. The structure incorrectly shows a tert-butyl group where there should be an isopropyl group. The correct structure is shown at right. Jan. 31, 2022, page 25: The Periodic Graphics infographic on antiviral molecules has an incorrect structure for saquinavir. The fused rings on the left should have a nitrogen, not a carbon. And a wedge, not a dash, should connect the central amide group. The correct structure is shown at right. Feb. 7, 2022, page 17: The feature story about companies struggling to hire biomanufacturing workers incorrectly describes a workforce training program at Massachusetts Biotechnology Education Foundation. It is a state-registered apprenticeship program, not an internship. Feb. 14, 2022, page 13: The feature article on urban runoff includes only part of a quotation by Edward Kolodziej. He said, “To protect the environment, we need to know what’s there,” not “To protect the environment, we.”