/sci/ - Science & Math

BioSci bros get in here!!

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Whatever you guys wanna talk about

I think I figured out why some people (especially chem and phys) seem to hate biology and discount it as a science.

I think it's because biology and its subfields (biochem, genetics, molecular genetics, cell/molecular biology, immunology, virology, microbio, etc.) are just really coming into their golden age now. This is in contrast to physics where its golden age was from roughly 1900 when Max Planck published a paper about blackbody radiation to 1945 when the first atomic bombs were detonated. It's harder to pinpoint a specific time frame chemistry but there is probably more already known than there is left to discover. I'm sure there are caveats to both these cases but I think we can all agree that much more is unknown in the biology and biological science related fields with new things being discovered every day.

The major tool of physics has been for the most part math and critical thinking which has been around for a long time and certainly many of the tools that chemistry uses have been around for a long time. This is in contrast to the tools of biological sciences like confocal microscopes, EM microscopes, and molecular tools have only been around in earnest for about 20-30 years.

These fields of biology are just beginning to enter the molecular golden age and are just now really getting the equipment they need to really understand what is happening.

Tl;dr Physfags and chemfags are upset that they won't have much new to discover once they're out of school so they have an irrational dislike for biology and related fields which are just now coming into their own.

You should be happy for your biobros, don't hate.