This is pretty true for MDs, but I don't know how true it is for PhDs. The classic meme is that MDs love organic chemistry, but they hate biochemistry [1], bec

This is pretty true for MDs, but I don't know how true it is for PhDs. The classic meme is that MDs love organic chemistry, but they hate biochemistry [1], because one is about memorization and the other is...less so, anyway. But then again, neuroscientists do tend to love their big books of disjointed facts, so maybe it's more like medicine than I realize. I remember the one class I took on neuroscience was incredibly frustrating because of the wild extrapolations they were making from limited, low-quality data [2], that made it almost impossible to form a coherent theory of anything. [1] ...except for the Krebs cycle! Gotta memorize that thing or we'll never be able to fix broken legs! [2] "ooh, the fMRI on two people turned slightly pink! significant result!"