Spicing up the sauce. Strictly cheeni kum.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Small rant

I'm a little annoyed by the plethora of papers out there with a complex mouse phenotype that they don't fully understand..so they call it premature aging. Its not aging if they die earlier than they should. Thats just a pathology you haven't figured out yet. And I have to read the paper for journal club...gives me a headache. On the bright side, its easy to critique those papers because they just have so many loopholes in them..beginning with the fundamentally incorrect hypothesis, to poorly designed experiments that lack the appropriate controls. But still, trashing a bad paper gives me no endorphin rush. Just a sad feeling.

Nothing that chocolate can't cure.

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