Comments on: Stuff scientists say

By: Adelwolf

Adelwolf — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:03:00 +0000

What IS it with the no love of the social scientist? Waaaaaaah

By: benchscientist

benchscientist — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:05:00 +0000

what, no data not shown?

By: AnthonyC

AnthonyC — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:39:00 +0000

A physics professor told me about a class by some famous physicist. The teacher said “It is easy to show that…”

A student asked “Professor, *is* it easy to show that?”

The teacher wrote for a while, then left the room. He came back 15 minutes later and said, “Yes, it’s easy.”

By: CokePlusMentos

CokePlusMentos — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:30:00 +0000

is it just me or they simply say a lot of normal stuff, apart from 2-3 things that are actually old-as-batman science clichés?

By: zaptrashmasher

zaptrashmasher — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:59:00 +0000

That poor social scientist–no respect :(

By: jackbob

jackbob — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:53:00 +0000

They missed out on a big one: ‘Trivial”.
My wife is a theoretical physicist and I’ve never been to any party with her and her colleagues and not overheard someone at some point saying either “but that’s trivial!!!!” (in exasperated tones) referring to someone else’s work or “It’s pretty non-trivial dude…” (very serious tones) referring to their own.

By: Millo Lopez

Millo Lopez — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:07:00 +0000

Sometimes I wish I had a full hazmat suit before looking in the office fridge..

By: julianasbananas

julianasbananas — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:39:00 +0000

That’s about right, except for the cultures being kept in the same refrigerator as actual food.

By: phil hoffman

phil hoffman — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:39:00 +0000

To look in a fridge with cell cultures and mustard mixed with reckless abandon? I would.

By: shirlockc

shirlockc — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:18:00 +0000

Again with the lab coat? And who wears goggles to look in the fridge?

By: pizzicato

pizzicato — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:58:00 +0000

I can’t believe they left out the real shit, no self respecting scientist could do without an ‘in conclusion’ slide beside an abstract of course… Everything in between is inconsequential, because nobody reads it!

By: Marktech

Marktech — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:55:00 +0000

the use of the word stochastic

Todays AWAD, as it happens. What are the chances of that happening?

By: José Côrte-Real

José Côrte-Real — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:39:00 +0000

I can’t believe they didn’t use “In this paper we introduce a novel approach to …”

By: Nylund

Nylund — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:37:00 +0000

All in all, kinda meh, but I definitely related to the wasting of time with computer games, the use of the word stochastic, and the bit about “more research is needed.”