DDL on 29/4/2013 at 17:16
Dema: interesting take on things!
My personal view is that science should remain as cold, hard, and scientific as possible: if we encourage scientists to sensationalise data, they risk losing perspective.
Of course, this is all hugely shot in the foot (and or face) when it comes to actually getting science funding or publications, whereupon you have to make your "minor discovery that may or may not hold up to subsequent scrutiny" sound like it's the new fucking cure for everything, but hey: the principle still ostensibly stands. It's easier to remain objective and non-commital when the data is for someone else, rather than being "your own stuff".
Maybe you should ask your toxicologist to pitch her findings as a grant proposal? That way something like "there's a possible correlation, maybe" becomes "we have identified a strong link" and so on. :p
Woo moral bankruptcy.
faetal on 29/4/2013 at 17:18
Quote Posted by Vivian
I'm thinking of renaming the playing-with-a-dead-limb field necromechanics
:cool:
faetal on 29/4/2013 at 17:21
Quote Posted by demagogue
Interestingly I've been...SNIP
Fairly standard inter-disciplinary stuff. In order to focus on the science, she treats the socio-political stuff as a black box and only cares about what it outputs. If you're looking at the socio-political stuff, you'd probably want the same kind of thing from the science side non?
I think all academic pursuit is limited to that kind of thing anyway. In order to examine something at high complexity, you have to sacrifice the wider picture. It's like you can choose between detail or breadth.
It's interest stuff Dema. I remember reading some studies taken after tsunamis that showed that a large number of the casualties were from sepsis due to decaying bodies and waste washing through everyone's living spaces.
Specter on 29/4/2013 at 17:35
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
I am a Pantry Chef. I fucking love my job, and have a passion for preparing food for others. I, myself, don't eat shit, which is ironic. Alas, you'll find me @ Trattoria Roma (
http://www.trattoria-roma.com/) http://www.trattoria-roma.com/ workin' the cold side.
If I ever find myself in Columbus, I'll be stopping in for sure!
pavlovscat on 29/4/2013 at 22:09
Damn. You lot make me feel useless. I am a Lady of Leisure & Cat Mom. This means I mostly sit around the house messing around alternately with the computer & the cats.
fett on 29/4/2013 at 22:19
@gunny - I had no idea! I've gotten really interested in cooking this last year, but I've only gone so far as to take some online classes. Where did you go to school?
Kolya on 29/4/2013 at 22:53
Quote Posted by pavlovscat
Damn. You lot make me feel useless. I am a Lady of Leisure & Cat Mom. This means I mostly sit around the house messing around alternately with the computer & the cats.
Actually that sounds pretty nice. :)
PigLick on 30/4/2013 at 03:14
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
More like Panty Chef am I rite?
haha nice. For the record I do exactly what Fingernail does - music educator, working musician, work part time at music store. So how does that fit into the Kolya scale of employment? I do create stuff that isnt bytes on a computer, but it is also totally ephemeral cos you know, tree in a forest falling and all that.
HelloHello on 30/4/2013 at 07:00
Another pixel swizzler here.
Kolya on 30/4/2013 at 08:45
Musicians are cool. When we roam the post-apocalyptic ruins of our cities the bards will sing us tales of the failures of our fathers in the evening ("White sun of Muroroa", "Money can't buy me food", "Melanie ffm analized"). Just no drummers please.
