I was not telling anyone that their idea wouldn't work.
What I know is that doing experiments just "because" is not a good way to advance science that is not how science is advanced. Science is advanced by choosing a problem that needs answering and can be answered. I can try and detect the existence of God using LEDs because no one can tell me it won't work. Or I can think about what I am actually trying to do and come up with a reasonable hypothesis so I don't waste my time. 90% of good science is thinking and developing a good question and a good way to answer it.
I am a Ph.D. student and if I whenever I goto my boss with any idea he asks me two questions as every good scientist should:
How specifically do you plan on doing this?
Why do you plan on doing this?
If someone wants to build a spectrophotometric nail fungus detector to learn something, I am all about it. If one is trying to build a spectrophotometric nail fungus detector to help detect nail fungus when there are already plenty of good ways to do that already I am slightly skeptical of the scientific benefit, which is why I posed some questions. I never said it was not possible. I was just asking what specifically people planned on looking for. This is what any good scientist would ask.
That's what granting agencies ask, that is what everyone asks. Sure perhaps someone could stumble across something innovative but that is not a scientists goal. That is gambling and if you are going to gamble why do it with something like DIYBio when you could do it with room temperature superconductors and perhaps change the world.
Very few clincal PCR assays? I think you meant very many.
It is used to isolate and detect basically every type of infection. Can be used for detecting cancers and genetic diseases. In fact new born babies are screened for at least 21 disorders by LAW in the US within 48 hours of birth.
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Jeswin <phillyj101@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Josiah Zayner <josiah.zayner@gmail.com> wrote:You know, if you tell any grad student, inventor, etc that his idea
> one would want to know can be discovered. There is idosyncratically no way
> to do this with light scatter.
>
won't work without letting them figure out if it will or not, no one
will advance science. Maybe it won't work. Maybe he will find a way to
make it work. Let him figure it out.
And I agree with his point. There are very few clinical PCR assays.
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