Found while cleaning my home office, a sheet of paper with
the following:
BioSci Student Symposium notes:
(1) Does the reference to authority authenticate your work
in a way that a good and conceptually strong idea doesn’t? (I think maybe so.
??Suggest a first slide with the idea/ref to authority and your test of
authority’s assertion?) (What does this observation tell us about the structure
of our science? Whatever the answer, it is unflattering, but ultimately perhaps
something we need to take into account.)
(2) Is parasitism too complex for the average biologist to
understand? For the average scientist? I think we should always be aware of
this possibility and account for it in our presentations.
(3) In this same vein, are simple problems expressed within
paradigmatic frameworks most easily understood by scientists?
