[DIYbio] Re: Community Lab Track at iGEM- Help us define Medal Rqts!

Perhaps you'd like to wait for a bit longer than 48 hours [*] before posting a near-insulting dismissal regarding a group that you spontaneously post to.  Unless you're goal is to prove in some biased way, some agenda perhaps, that this group doesn't care for an expensive and elitist competition that focuses more on t-shirts and generating half-baked AP news articles than on the scientific method. 

Quote: " It seems that they [the University iGEM team] had the unfortunate gall to suggest to their betters [the iGEM judges] that things might be done differently [that is, improve the protocols]. As we all know, education in general, and the iGEM in particular, are not about student input as much as they are about student obedience and obsequiousness.  [...] And so, a bunch of punk-ass students had the temerity to suggest that perhaps an international competition and showcase, which they stupidly thought was about science (hahahahaha), should perhaps use better scientific tools, or at least have input on such scientific tools. Such insolence had to be put down, and fortunately the judges were right there to do so."   -- http://ellingtonlab.org/blog/2012/11/09/on-apologetics/

[*] Feb 07 09:44AM - Feb 05 09:03AM


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On Friday, February 7, 2014 9:44:17 AM UTC-8, Ellen Jorgensen wrote:

Wow, resounding silence. I had hoped to get a broader cross-section of this community involved in the discussion. Guess I will contact the labs who might enter this year directly. it's funny, when we first started Genspace in 2009, one of the big goals of the DIYBio community was to compete at iGEM. Maybe it's less relevant to you all in 2014.