Okay, but what is the point of the thought experiment? If the point is, as the addendum at the bottom indicates, to convince scientists to support a bioinformatics group rather than having their own bioinformatician, the same arguments and reasoning the post shows could've been presented without the whole "you're not allowed bioinformatics" framing device, which is certainly attention-getting but far less likely to be persuasive because you're behaving confrontationally towards the very people you're trying to persuade.

Read the essay that inspired this essay (linked), published by some little British journal, (Nature, I think?). The point is to express a similar frustration.