Sunday, October 02, 2005

i've been wanting to make this fuss for a long time. i've never realised the extent to which biologists are discriminated against as a distinct (lesser) group among the scientists until recent months.. even the lousiest physicist can sneer at any biologist without the least contemplation. how many times have I heard the careless and subconscious comment "blah blah blah....biologists!" as if the name suggests a kind of bad logic that is not even worth discussing. what's the matter with that? i'm reminded of this injustice once again when i read a comment on one of my friends' blogs, by an arrogant PHYSICIST "faint~... biologists." . why? why make the association at all? i think he has got nothing better to say, due to limited thinking capacity and knowledge. from the blog, he is nothing more than a physics student trying hard to become one or those cambridge snobs, who brags endlessly about his own major and school, and who gets excited about the most trivial physics trivia.

4 comments:

YayADuCK said...

... Now then I know the guy you critisized so much was someone left a msg on my msn space... Don't have to be so emotional, I think he doesn't really mean anything...

YayADuCK said...

calm calm...

Z said...

i think the main reason they sneer at biologists is that they assume biologists have minimal basic knowledge about the other aspects of science, like empirical maths or chemistry. and indeed it's not easy to find 'pure biologists'. lots contributions come from chemists and physicists (Fischer, Pauling, those big shots...) anyway it doesn't really matter as long as methods and analytical abilities are way up there ^^

YayADuCK said...

agree. watson and crick didn't even know the structure of adenine when they researched into the field of DNA structure. This pissed off chargaff a lot...