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fallingsaucer  ·  3293 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Undergrads: Do you ever feel defensive? HELP!

As someone who is on the track towards basic (as opposed to applied) scientific research, "Why would you want to know that?"

Any no true Scotsman arguments

Unwarranted cynicism of scientists as people and the theories they work on





lil  ·  3293 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks.

Interesting. So you tell someone what you are researching and they say, "Why would you want to know that."

What do you normally say next?