Beyond the Drawbridge

I whinged, open channel, about a particularly troublesome speaker. He was from the Human Nutrition department, obviously.

What I didn’t mention was how nauseatingly self-congratulatory they were. ‘Of course, we all know we need low GI versions of Kelloggs Cornflakes’ and stuff like that. What was striking was how little adverse or hostile comment there was. Go to a proper science seminar and inevitably someone will throw you a curve-ball. That’s what science is about, that’s peer review.

I didn’t know enough about the subject to ask searching questions (although I did laugh out loud at the one scatter graph he presented:  a straight line through it with an r of about 0.2)—and I refrained from commenting that despite any data to support them, he was making recommendations based on what ‘everyone’ (i.e. the HN dept) already ‘knows’.

And these are the people the meeja worship.

Fucking medics. We’re all doomed.