The “look down on it” bit hit a nerve because it is sort of true: there’s an archetype of bro-y “I do _real_ science” first year grad students who do think that

The “look down on it” bit hit a nerve because it is sort of true: there’s an archetype of bro-y “I do _real_ science” first year grad students who do think that. They (usually) grow out of it eventually, but usually not before demoralizing a classmate or two. I don’t think this is the general consensus among most neuroscientists though (I am one, but do neurophysiology rather than fMRI). Jack Gallant’s group, which I linked below, has produced a bunch of very smart people. There are some fMRI folks in the National Academy of Sciences, at the NIH, etc. It’s the real deal. I’m curious where you’re seeing newer glucose PET stuff. We have a radiochemistry group downstairs and I thought most of the excitement was now custom tracers for specific receptors.