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When working in labs studying brain function, the oddest thing I found was the huge resistance in what or what not an animal can do. Even in the face of years o
by Lost_BiomedE 12y ago
When working in labs studying brain function, the oddest thing I found was the huge resistance in what or what not an animal can do. Even in the face of years of research by big and small names, even with video, even when you train an animal and show them. They couldn't even provide a good hypothesis on why it was not so. It was argued circularly like trying to talk a paranoid schizophrenic out of their false world-view. Very frustrating. I would usually just tell them that if they could find a reason it wasn't so, they could easily get a nature paper out of it.
- sillysaurus3 12y agoCould you provide an example? I'm having trouble understanding what you mean.
- Lost_BiomedE 12y agoIt could be as simple as a mouse being able to discriminate white from black or low tones from high tones. Sometimes I think the culture in some areas of science has become twisted. It really has to be experienced to be believed.
- sillysaurus3 12y agoAh, are you saying that scientists had trouble accepting the idea that a mouse could discriminate white from black? It seems like a repeatable test would be pretty convincing evidence. What justification was there for ignoring it?