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1. h1. Scientists
3. -A scientist is the catch all definition for those who perform science.
4. +A scientist is the catch-all definition for those who perform science.
5. Like many academic terms it is unscientifically defined. A scientist is
6. -usually additionally defined by his position is the academic hierarchy, his
7. +usually additionally defined by his position in the academic hierarchy, his
8. discipline, the number of papers published and cited and most importantly
9. how much funding he has (as the former definitions rely on this).
11. It is vitally important not to let scientists get too bored. Otherwise,
12. things like
13. "this":http://www.newscientist.com/blog/shortsharpscience/2008/07/rappin-physics.html
14. happen.
16. h2. +Scientific Positions+
20. h2. +Disciplines+
22. There are an infinite number of disciplines available in ((academia)).
23. This is because a scientific discipline is a word purely designed to
24. achieve ((funding)) and a good scientist knows how to make up a brand new
25. discipline on the spot to achieve it. A scientist may be a member of
26. -several disciplines. Some of which are macro (i.e. physics, biology,
27. +several disciplines, some of which are macro (i.e. physics, biology,
28. chemistry), some micro (i.e. material engineering), some cross disciplinary
29. (i.e. computational neuroscience) and some made up while high on cocaine in
30. front of the review board from a funding body (i.e. integrative
31. neuroscience).
32. Scientifically this means fuck all.
33. -However a rapidly burgeoning science of which ((Dave_M)) has just invented
34. +However a rapidly burgeoning science which ((Dave_M)) has just invented
35. and is seeking funding for is sciencephrenology. This exciting new
36. discipline will open up many new areas of research which are profitable and
37. will have immediate returns on any number of patents and technologies.
38. Sciencephrenology is the discipline in which a scientist’s personality
39. and mental attributes are identified by their choice of discipline. This
40. will enable funding bodies to gain more control of scientists as well as
41. increase the scientists ability to meet deadlines and -jump through more
42. fucking hoops- perform science.
44. h3. +Personalities and Caring Instructions by Discipline+
46. h4. +Physics+
48. _Physicists come in two flavours, Theoretical and Applied. However, some
49. features are common to both._
51. A physicist usually has a higher tendency of believing they are doing
52. -((SCIENCE))! then most other disciplines. This is generally because they
53. +((SCIENCE))! than most other disciplines. This is generally because they
54. get away with providing little in the way of substantial returns from the
55. last 50 years as everyone keeps hoping they might come up with something
56. amazing again soon. One strategy physicists have engaged in to collect more
57. -funding and build a bigger academic empire is the universal theory of
58. -everything routine. In this routine the physicist uses terms such as
59. +funding and build a bigger academic empire is the "universal theory of
60. +everything" routine. In this routine the physicist uses terms such as
61. paradigm, ant hills and occasionally random bits of string to blag that
62. once the breakthrough comes everything will be different and amazing.
63. In recent years, however, this seems to be less effective, and the
64. reductionist demons stopped being helpful and have once again begun to
65. force physicists to diverge, much to their chagrin. Another reason may well
66. be that string theory is ((Silly)).
68. The greatest and most brilliant example of this technique was invented by
69. -J.J Thomson who while heavily inebriated was queried at a Christmas
70. -function was queried on the secrets of the atom. Knowing that his funding
71. -was at risk he choose to claim that the atomic structure of the universe
72. -was lots and lots of little Christmas puddings (or specifically plum
73. -puddings).
74. +J.J Thomson who while heavily inebriated at a Christmas function was
75. +queried on the secrets of the atom. Knowing that his funding was at risk he
76. +chose to claim that the atomic structure of the universe was lots and lots
77. +of little Christmas puddings (or specifically plum puddings).
78. Many physicists are considerably grateful this occasion had not occurred
79. while Thomson was at the Bordello he commonly frequented as indeed should
80. the world be. Had he been, the universe would be a very different place
81. indeed.
82. Fortunately Thomson's model soon fell out of favour with the general
83. population of physicists and once again reality returned to a better, less
84. -squigy substance. This was an excellent save on the part of the physics
85. +squidgy substance. This was an excellent save on the part of the physics
86. community as they rapidly realised that if the universe was made out of
87. plum puddings the general populace would rapidly fall out of favour with
88. physics after their third helping and probably riot when they realised they
89. were going to have to have a helping everyday for the next week if they
90. didn't want to waste the physicists new contribution.
92. The Plum Pudding model was not long dead, however, when things began to
93. get much, much stranger and more bafflingly incomprehensible. This is
94. because of ((Quantum)).
96. h3. +Applied Physicists+
98. Applied Physicists tend to believe they are doing ((SCIENCE))!, typically
99. because they are. However, luckily for the rest of us, they tend to
100. produce useful results on a fairly regular basis. It is a mistake,
101. however, to expect these results to have practical applications. That is
102. an Engineer's job. If you want to know where your flying car is, you
103. should ask them.
105. h3. +Theoretical Physicists+
107. -Theoretical Physicist are strange creatures. They tend to get very, very
108. +Theoretical Physicists are strange creatures. They tend to get very, very
109. excited about obscure pieces of theory, or just random bits of the maths.
110. -This often leads to them going off on bizzare tangents due to their own
111. +This often leads to them going off on bizarre tangents due to their own
112. intellectual curiosity which are of zero use to anyone. When this
113. happens, it all gets ((Silly)). This is, in a nutshell, how String Theory
114. was born.
117. h5. Care Instructions
119. Your average physicist is highly capable of mathematics, and one should
120. take the opportunity to remind them of this at every opportunity. Note
121. however that mathematics is considerably different from maths which they
122. will remind you when asked why they cannot handle simple addition and
123. subtraction. Strangely for such a quiet occasionally anti-social creature
124. they can throw the most amazing parties when amongst their own kind and
125. -which anyone else who manages to get in will have fun memories for life.
126. +which anyone else who manages to get in will have fun memories of for life.
127. However when not with other physicists at another party they can kill it
128. horribly.
130. In the experience of ((Iasus)), the converse is true. Parties composed of
131. physicists are, in his experience, incredibly dull. The last one he went
132. to made him want to gouge his own eyes out with a rusty spoon.
134. The sciencephrenology hypothesis is that unlike biologists (who have a
135. -hive scientific ability) physicists relagated thier social instincts to the
136. -communial conciousness. Thus the more physicists in one room the more
137. -social and charistmatic they become and if they should ever reach a
138. -critical mass in population the world will become one big bonobo monkey
139. -orgy.
140. +hive scientific ability) physicists relegated their social instincts to the
141. +communal conciousness. Thus the more physicists in one room the more social
142. +and charismatic they become and if they should ever reach a critical mass
143. +in population the world would become one big bonobo monkey orgy.
144. As such sciencephrenology is of the opinion that this would be detrimental
145. to our funding and so physicists should continued to be mocked to help
146. curtail this threat.
147. The physicist has also gained a new and highly dangerous ability to get
148. wacked out of their head on theoretical physics. Due to a genetic quirk in
149. dopaminic levels certain pot heads enter the discipline and become massive
150. -competant physicists. In the final stages they turn away from LSD,
151. -amphetimines and pyschoactive substances in favour of subpartical and
152. +competent physicists. In the final stages they turn away from LSD,
153. +amphetamines and psychoactive substances in favour of subparticle and
154. quantum mechanics.
156. h4. +Biology+
158. Biology is a rapidly evolving and growing macro discipline. There are
159. several reasons for this, first and foremost being the large amount of
160. -succesful research and thier occasional application in other area's of
161. -science which biology examined and subsequently half inched. While without
162. -a doubt the best biologists are those who were acidentally half inched
163. +succesful research and their occasional application in other areas of
164. +science which biology examined and subsequently half-inched. While without
165. +a doubt the best biologists are those who were acidentally half-inched
166. along with their research this entry shall focus on biologists who are
167. foolish enough to openly call themselves this.
168. Some common traits shared by biologists is their tendency to think
169. mathematics only comprises of differential equations of which they are
170. -inordinately proud of their ability to solve. Thier offices can
171. -occasionally consist of purely mac computers and thier general programming
172. -ability starts and ends with spread sheet formulas. However this is not to
173. +inordinately proud of their ability to solve. Their offices can
174. +occasionally consist of purely mac computers and their general programming
175. +ability starts and ends with spreadsheet formulae. However this is not to
176. say that biologists who openly call themselves biologists do not contribute
177. to the discipline of biology.
178. This is because biologists have been trained and are specialists in one of
179. the black arts of academia.
180. That of collaboration.
181. Collaboration in academia is a particularly nasty and dangerous gray area
182. -of expertise at which only the smartest and most sucessful scientists
183. +of expertise in which only the smartest and most sucessful scientists
184. survive. In addition it can require dirty non-scientific skills such as
185. face to face communication, listening and being reasonable.
186. Occasionally it can even involve compromise, a term every scientist has
187. been pre-conditioned to hate through special summer courses. One of the key
188. points in training and why most scientists despise this particular black
189. -art revolves around the pre-conditioning they recieve during their final
190. +art revolves around the pre-conditioning they receive during their final
191. chance at academic ((escape)) or degree.
192. This is because before post-graduate level any retard can get onto to any
193. degree and leave with a ((tutu)) at the end (though not everyone who leaves
194. with a ((tutu)) is a retard). Thus during group coursework the budding
195. -inoccent post graduate discovers that if they want to continue they must
196. -not just complete thier work but half the other collaborators. This quickly
197. +innocent post graduate discovers that if they want to continue they must
198. +not just complete their work but half the other collaborators. This quickly
199. scars them and helps condition them into avoiding the real world and
200. staying trapped in academia.
201. The side effect of this is of course they become allergic to true
202. collaboration and distrustful of their fellow academics.
203. Biologists escape the worse effects of this however as until they reach a
204. certain tier in the academic heirarchy their work must be supervised and
205. thus it is transparent to their assessor who is putting in the effort.
206. This is not to say that they still do not suffer from negative effects
207. from this experiance as otherwise they would have a higher ((escape)) ratio
208. -but they are considerably less scared from the experiance.
209. +but they are considerably less scarred from the experiance.
210. The principle flaw in this sciencephrenology argument however is that it
211. -requires thier supervisor to actually care and unfortunately as this will
212. +requires their supervisor to actually care and unfortunately as this will
213. typically be a post graduate this is unlikely.
214. -Prehaps it is an unexplainable phenomon therefore.
215. +Perhaps it is an unexplainable phenomon therefore.
220. h5. Care Instructions
222. Your average Biologist is more neurotic then any other member of one of
223. the macro disciplines. This is due to the duality of the fact they are more
224. highly social then any of the others against the fact they are scientists.
225. The current strategy utilised by academia therefore is to remove either
226. their scientific ability or their social tendencies.
227. To achieve the later, funding bodies insist on large amounts of very
228. boring courses such as radiation training. This has the effect of being a
229. mental lobotomy and psychically removes the offending parts of their
230. personality by traumatising them. To achieve the former the biologist is
231. tricked into accepting an administrative position or one of resource
232. responsibility, this grants them extra opportunities to be social and
233. -therefore reduces the amount of actual science they perform. Which in turn
234. +therefore reduces the amount of actual science they perform, which in turn
235. after time completely removes all scientific ability from their minds. Many
236. administrators are unaware of this fact and continue to believe they are
237. making genuine contributions to science instead of getting in the way.
238. Further more administrators allow more courses to be performed which in
239. turn leads to more biologists having their social tendencies obliterated.

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