Re:“You’re not allowed bioinformatics anymore”
by danso on Thursday July 24, 2014 @10:40AM
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Strawman scientist?
> “Yes. Now, let’s see. It’s an amazing, visionary proposal, a great collaboration, and congratulations on pulling it together. I just have one question” said the director “This proposal will generate a huge amount of data – how do you plan to deal with it all?”
“Oh that’s easy!” answered Smith. “It’s all on page 6. We’ve requested funds to employ a bioinformatician for the lifetime of the project. They’ll deal with all of the data” he stated, triumphantly.
I dunno...this sounds like a problematic mindset across many, many domains in science. What makes the field of biology less prone to it?
> “Yes. Now, let’s see. It’s an amazing, visionary proposal, a great collaboration, and congratulations on pulling it together. I just have one question” said the director “This proposal will generate a huge amount of data – how do you plan to deal with it all?”
“Oh that’s easy!” answered Smith. “It’s all on page 6. We’ve requested funds to employ a bioinformatician for the lifetime of the project. They’ll deal with all of the data” he stated, triumphantly.
I dunno...this sounds like a problematic mindset across many, many domains in science. What makes the field of biology less prone to it?