Yeah, because I'm so sure that the number of scientists that are researching cellulite outnumbers breast cancer researchers. How about I come around and say your work isn't valuable enough to society?

People I meet usually go through an initial stage of shock that I'm Texan, wonder why I miss the state... then accept it as okay because I'm from Austin - but later end up confused when I say I was living in Dallas for several years and would move back there in a heartbeat. Never once has someone so shocked about my…

I was more like that when I still lived in Texas, I've been in the wasteland of DC since August and have had the "Oh! It must be so amazing to FINALLY be out of (enter some negative descriptor) Texas" conversation too many times to count.

I'm all for equal opportunity snarking, I'm probably just annoyed because of the near constant snarking about Texas for any and every story that comes out of there... even if it's NOT related to our wacky elected officials.

because many of the writers here snark on every part of the country that is not the northeast or west coast, duh.

I did like that movie a lot when I saw it in the theater... but I have ABSOLUTELY no recollection of the ending... which probably confirms your feelings on it.

What? That's not what she said at all. I've been in public restrooms plenty of times when someone CLEARLY of the opposite gender was in there fooling around with someone else.

I've known plenty of people in happy, healthy marriages that were still total right wing, easily offended religious nuts. Take the higher ground and don't assume things about people you don't know. They're uptight, bigoted nuts - isn't that enough?

My guess is... if their managers were instructed to say thank you and walk off - they DON'T want your business. Read between the lines OMM.

The guy I know is 25 and comes from a family that self-identifies as rednecks... so, his name basically makes him a badass amongst his group of friends.

The one person I know with a firearm-tribute name happens to think it's incredibly awesome.

Kids will find a way to make fun of any and every name. It doesn't even have to make sense. In elementary school I was called Grey Grace... I'm still trying to figure out what exactly what meant by that. My only guess was that I had an old lady name. I've always been pretty chipper and back then I mostly wore purple.…

They're not going to spend hundreds of millions developing a drug that will never even begin to cover it's own costs... and I can't blame them. They're businesses not charities - you don't invest money in something if you won't get it back. This is why the government often provides incentives for companies to develop…

I'm in academia :D we don't care about profits (usually).

I work in a lab that collaborates with a natural products chemist, he goes and collects environmental samples from different niches around the world and attempts to isolate organisms we have not previously seen basically by using novel bacterial growth medium. He grows large scale cultures of the bacteria he's…

I'm not in pharma - and I never intend to be if I can avoid it (I love academia too much)... but, pharmaceutical companies have an undeserved bad reputation. They are for-profit industries and the cost of bringing a single drug to market is over 300 million and that doesn't account for the cost of drugs that fail…

There are a lot of issues with the development of new antibiotics that go beyond just profitability. Often times simply obtaining enough of the product to perform sufficient testing just to make it to clinical trials is nearly impossible and total chemical synthesis may be difficult or prohibitively expensive at early…

Stuff like this makes me happy I'm one of the (few) researchers actually working on antibiotics.

Oi, when will people learn that skin color isn't always telling? I'm 1/4th Romani and my skin is too light for almost every line of foundations. I mean... for all intents and purposes I consider myself just plain ol' white thanks to a variety of factors (having little cultural attachment to it, not being accepted by…

I had to stop after the beginning, did he really go "wait wait, it's okay, MEN are doing harder jobs like math science and engineering." because... yeah, OBVIOUSLY there's not an issue that these fields are male dominant.