The top one isn’t as fun as you might think. It’s full of psychologists playing scientist and people use different words for the same thing so you’ll read a bunch of papers by two supposedly educated people trying to disprove each others theories when they actually have the same theory.
But it’s not just the psychologists doing this. Neuroscience attracts people with backgrounds in cell biology, biophysics, mathematics, philosophy, genetics, etc all using their own vocabulary and writing styles. It’s horrible.
Not to mention you can raise a rat to adulthood, preform injections of dye into it’s cortex wait for the tracer to do it’s thing, harvest the brain, spend half a day standing over the microtome slicing it into 50 micrometer sections (this is the worst part and can lead to RSI) and mounting them on slides only to discover that you were a half mm off and you just unloaded your tracer into the lateral entorhinal cortex instead of the medial entorhinal cortex and your other injections are fucked in a variety of interesting ways. Rendering the last couple of months a waste of time.
Not to mention all the horrific chemicals you’re expected to use.
I’m fine now. Although I should also add that in addition to all the bullshit, in some countries it’s more important to a be well known than correct. Leading to a few researchers being extremely well known for supporting a theory which is obviously flawed and publishing a number of papers on a demonstrably incorrect theory and getting a stupid number of citations by people pointing out that they’re wrong. But when you’re that highly cited you’re in a very favourable position with university administration and publishers. So they just keep on spouting nonsense.
The top one isn’t as fun as you might think. It’s full of psychologists playing scientist and people use different words for the same thing so you’ll read a bunch of papers by two supposedly educated people trying to disprove each others theories when they actually have the same theory.
But it’s not just the psychologists doing this. Neuroscience attracts people with backgrounds in cell biology, biophysics, mathematics, philosophy, genetics, etc all using their own vocabulary and writing styles. It’s horrible.
Not to mention you can raise a rat to adulthood, preform injections of dye into it’s cortex wait for the tracer to do it’s thing, harvest the brain, spend half a day standing over the microtome slicing it into 50 micrometer sections (this is the worst part and can lead to RSI) and mounting them on slides only to discover that you were a half mm off and you just unloaded your tracer into the lateral entorhinal cortex instead of the medial entorhinal cortex and your other injections are fucked in a variety of interesting ways. Rendering the last couple of months a waste of time.
Not to mention all the horrific chemicals you’re expected to use.
are…are you okay? that last example sounded personal.
I’m fine now. Although I should also add that in addition to all the bullshit, in some countries it’s more important to a be well known than correct. Leading to a few researchers being extremely well known for supporting a theory which is obviously flawed and publishing a number of papers on a demonstrably incorrect theory and getting a stupid number of citations by people pointing out that they’re wrong. But when you’re that highly cited you’re in a very favourable position with university administration and publishers. So they just keep on spouting nonsense.
brains hard 😔
Surprisingly firm, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say hard.