Academia=squabbling over ideas?

RacinReaver
Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:35:30 +0000

Yay experimentalists!

The problem for that group I was in was the theory has been around for the last 30 years or so and came from a very well respected member of that research community. The experiments are crazy tedious (the data I worked on had been collected over the course of three graduate students across 12 years) and nobody in their right mind would want to do this much microscopy.

I just couldn’t believe how angry people were during the research presentation at a conference I attended. Like, there was actual shouting and angry old man fist shaking.