"Feel free to create your own university where you have the funding for petri dishes. In the meantime, I'm going to publish without them, because I feel like t

"Feel free to create your own university where you have the funding for petri dishes. In the meantime, I'm going to publish without them, because I feel like this tissue culture I'm growing on my lunch is statistically significant." Just because I am not personally entitled (by funding, by ethics, by career position) to collect the necessary data to demonstrate a hypothesis, does not make that hypothesis demonstrable with lesser data.