/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10615808
big talk from someone made of cells

>>10615808
it's shit pseudo science

>>10615822
>Hurrrdddddurrrrrrr. Only my major is real science.

>>10615808
I wish science snobs would stop this shit.
>everything but MY FIELD is a fake science
Get the fuck out.

>>10615808
That would be psychology or psychiatry

>>10615822
I'm afraid you are correct for the most part. The vast majority of peer-reviewed published data is largely unreproducible garbage at the expense of the tax payer. Even when it is reproducible its still a waste imho. Take me for example, I study how fruit flies fend off genetic parasites. I mean who gives a fuck.

>t. biofag

>>10615814
>cells
you say cells I say atoms

>>10615939
Crispr Cas9 came out of a bacteria immune-system.

>>10615808
No you fucking retard
>>10615939
this isn’t true at all

>>10615957
Are you implying that CRISPR is somehow useful outside the domain of burning taxpayer money?

>>10615808
No, Biology is the law of science fields

>Stuck up pre-professionals that think they will be richer than their peers

>Makes unremarkable wages unless they specialize as lawyers or doctors

>Made fun of for being 'pure memorization' despite having more nuance and creativity when you reach the higher levels of study

>Regardless, one of the few fields to have many applications and a large industry attached to it

>Full of both mid-wits and rare geniuses

Liberal arts Equivalents:
Biology -> Law/Pre-Law
Psychology -> Gender studies
Math -> Philosophy
Physics -> Literature
Chemistry -> Economics/Political Science/International Relations

>>10615963
>this isn’t true at all
Irreproducibility in life sciences is a growing concern. When you combine complex experimental designs, dodgy statistics and questionable reagents (antibodies in particular) you're bound to make some false conclusions. The top journals are less likely to be affected but you don't get to hear about the tons of stuff published down the IF hierarchy. Its just piles of shit mate, get over it.

>>10615986
psychology isn’t a science

>>10615974
https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2019/04/02/a-crispr-approach-to-treating-sickle-cell/
It has been only 6 years since the MIT research group demonstrated CRISPR as a system for human genome editing. In that time, we have already made it to the first human trials.

You are a retard if you think this wasn't a landmark technology. Although it will also NEVER be as good as sci-fi fags wish it was. It will probably be used to cure many genetic diseases in the future, and drive innovation across all biotech fields, just like PCR did.

>>10615997
They said the same thing about RNAi and stem cells.

>>10615988
Its not even remotely as bad for biology as it is for economics or psychology, genomics and physiology papers replicate, cell biology, behavioral biology and biomedical research typically do not. That is to be expected considering the circumstances of their intersection with industry, overwhelming number of brainlets who are shuffled into these reaearch teams and the sensitive nature of the phenomena they’re studying. There are parts of the life sciences that are just extremely difficult to design proper experiments for and then there is genetics, physiology, and molecular biology where we do approach the precision of other fields. Self flagellating is more common among biologists over this because they’re on average dumber people and more easily brow beaten, psychology actually deserves to be totally purged because the entire field is based in nonsense, the modern synthesis and our basic understanding of physiology are not nonsense they’re literally biological laws that are almost never violated and replicate every single time they’re examined.

>>10616004
RNAi has not nearly the same hype as stem cells and CRISPR. Stem cells have revolutionized early stage pharmaceutical testing and testing of biologics.

>>10615993
Here's your (you).

95 percent of bio majors want to get to med school

>>10615808
I'M SORRY MASTERY OVER LIFE ITSELF ISN'T A CLEAR FUCKING EQUATION ON PAPER YOU FUCKING SCILETS

>>10615808
This whole thread just stinks of pseuds.

>>10615939
You sound jaded, so your anecdotal evidence isn't worth much.

>>10615808
I'm sorry biology is too complex for you to explain it in a few equations

>>10615808
it isn't, biology is far more legitimate than any bogus X studies degree
>>10616562
imagine getting baited into saying something THIS retarded

>>10615993
True it’s there with climate science.

Literally anything other than math is the humanities faggots of STEM

>>10617287

>>10615939
>zoologist
Your field is worthless. Animals are just fungi with stomachs. Might as well waste your life studying the sexual mating rituals of protists.

>>10615974
Have you been in a cave for a very long time?
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/05/boys-rare-muscle-disease-are-breathing-their-own-thanks-gene-therapy

>>10617428
Wow, nice one. I am >>10615997, and I haven't seen this one yet.

>>10615808
It sure does attract a lot of IFLS brainlets who are bad at math.

>>10615986
Shouldn't History be equivalent to Physics? It requires a ton of memorization. This implies that Literature is rigorous and difficult as a major.

>>10617558
But literature IS difficult and rigorous as a major. You have to do craploads of reading and writing. At least when compared to things like econ, journalism, and poli sci

>>10617402
What a retard

>>10615939
nice falseflag engineer nigger

>>10617287
>t. 30k starting

>>10617287
Basado y rojoempillado absoutemente

What percentage of undergraduate biology majors wish to enter medical or dental school? Every female who did well in my high school wanted to be a doctor/dentist. Then went into biology. Only to find out that just becuase they did well in high school, does not mean they will do well in university. So they’re stuck with a useless bio majors where they have to be a M.Sc or Ph.D to find a job so instead they just transfer to education and become high school teachers.

>>10619362
The ones who want to be serious biology researchers from the start pick molecular bio, biomedical engineering, cell bio, and biochem.

>>10615939
>genetic parasites
genewhosawhatnow?

You study drosophila because they have faster generation times but similar immune processes as mammals, retard.