No, I don't think that people sit around twiddling their thumbs.
That is great that you know that stuff. If you reread that paragraph and my email I specifically refrained from being strictly inclusive or exclusive.
However, I think the "I know so much" is one thing that holds much DIY back not just Bio. I am sure many people on here know alot but how much? I think one thing that is drilled into us in graduate school is that you don't know enough, you never do. Do I know just what NMR stands for or can I explain why the Hahn echo is the basis for a Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill pulse sequence? Or what a CPMG pulse sequence measures and how the results can be missused?
A Ph.D. teaches you more then just things. It teaches you a mindset. Something that is very difficult to gain otherwise.
I am not saying one is useless without a Ph.D.
I am saying that a Ph.D. provides skills and opportunities that it is difficult to obtain otherwise.
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Josiah Zayner <josiah.zayner@gmail.com> wrote:Yes, I am familiar enough with that equipment and those methods. You should feel bad for assuming otherwise. What do you think people outside of academia do, sit around twiddling their thumbs every day? blehI have a feeling a good portion of DIYBio people could not pick up a random paper in the field of Biological Sciences and explain what is going on. Are you familiar enough with NMR, Flow cytometry, Mass spec, STORM or any of the other thousands of techniques that you could judge a figure or paper on its scientific merit?
- Bryan
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