“You’re not allowed bioinformatics anymore” • Hacker News Board

Re: “You’re not allowed bioinformatics anymore”

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Post by niels_olson » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 3:19 AM UTC

cwyers wrote: post #10

aaren wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a thought experiment, not a critique of all scientists. I can definitely see elements of that straw man in some scientists that I have met.

Okay, but what is the point of the thought experiment? If the point is, as the addendum at the bottom indicates, to convince scientists to support a bioinformatics group rather than having their own bioinformatician, the same arguments and reasoning the post shows could've been presented without the whole "you're not allowed bioinformatics" framing device, which is certainly attention-getting but far less likely to b…

Read the essay that inspired this essay (linked), published by some little British journal, (Nature, I think?). The point is to express a similar frustration.

Re: “You’re not allowed bioinformatics anymore”

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Post by benrapscallion » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 5:23 AM UTC

LordHumungous wrote: post #19

cwyers wrote: post #2

The end of the post: "If you are leading a project that creates huge amounts of data, instead of employing a bioinformatician in your own group, why not collaborate with an existing bioinformatics group and fund a post there?" If that's your goal, perhaps using a less derisive and incendiary tone towards the straw man scientist in the post would've been good?

As someone who's worked with micro biologists I can assure you it's not a straw man.

As someone who has worked with microbiologists, maybe you could start by spelling microbiologist right.

Re: “You’re not allowed bioinformatics anymore”

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Post by LordHumungous » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 4:08 AM UTC

benrapscallion wrote: post #32

LordHumungous wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who's worked with micro biologists I can assure you it's not a straw man.

As someone who has worked with microbiologists, maybe you could start by spelling microbiologist right.

Maybe you could not be a cunt