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From this description I wouldn't buy this book. It is focusing on a bunch of minor issues rather than the main problem. Biomed researchers only come up with vag

• return0 10y ago
  Agree with that. The problem is not just the inaccurate answers, but the questions are often ill-thought as well. Life scientists often make correlations from molecules to behavior or phenotype, an inference that spans many many orders of spatial magnitude and a gazillion of complex processes. There is just not enough of incentive for systematic bottom-up approaches, as the average grant size is made to fit this kind of hypotheses. It's more culture than training, or rather, training is a consequence of the culture of the field.
  • type0 10y ago
    It's more like: if you lost your keys on your way home, you go and look for them under the lamp post because you're drunk and you can only see where the light is.